The nursing approach that will minimize power struggles between the client with an eating dis-order and the nurse is best characterized as:
1. Authoritarian and autocratic
2. Laid-back and flexible
3. Rigid and unyielding
4. Compassionate and firm
ANS: 4
The client with an eating disorder quickly turns the relationship with the nurse into a series of power struggles unless the nurse is perceived as caring and compassionate yet firm enough to be able to maintain the components of the treatment plan even under pressure from the client. Op-tions 1 and 3: These approaches are an open invitation to power struggles. 2. The client will en-gage in testing and power struggles if she thinks the nurse can be manipulated.
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