Multiple Choice
A community mental health nurse has worked for months to establish a relationship with a delusional, suspicious patient. The patient recently lost employment and could no longer afford prescribed medications. The patient says, "Only a traitor would make me go to the hospital." Select the nurse's best initial intervention.
A) With the patient's consent, contact resources to provide medications without charge temporarily.
B) Arrange a bed in a local homeless shelter with nightly on-site supervision.
C) Hospitalize the patient until the symptoms have stabilized.
D) Ask the patient, "Do you feel like I am a traitor?"
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