A forensic nurse is teaching a group of nursing students about some of the particular challenges of this nursing role. Assessment of forensic clients can be difficult as a result of what factor?
A) A lack of detailed health records
B) The lack of evidence underlying forensic nursing practice
C) Security measures
D) Language and cultural barriers
Ans: C
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Security concerns affect every aspect of forensic psychiatric nursing practice and can complicate the creation of a therapeutic relationship. Often, interview rooms are glassed in completely to allow maximum observation of the nurse conducting the assessment. These rooms are soundproof, but all can see inside, violating the right to privacy and confidentiality common to the psychiatric nurse–client relationship (yet vital to security). This unique characteristic of forensic nursing supersedes the effects of language and cultural barriers or lack of health records. Forensic nursing does not lack an evidence base.
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