Which Situations Qualify as Abandonment on the Part of a Nurse

Which situations qualify as abandonment on the part of a nurse? (Select all that apply.) The nurse:

A) allows a patient with acute mania to refuse hospitalization without taking further action.
B) terminates employment without referring a seriously mentally ill patient for aftercare.
C) calls police to bring a suicidal patient to the hospital after a suicide attempt.
D) refers a patient with persistent paranoid schizophrenia to community treatment.
E) asks another nurse to provide a patient's care because of concerns about countertransference.

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