A Nursing Intervention That Will Be Planned to Occur Early

question 21

Multiple Choice

A nursing intervention that will be planned to occur early in the nurse-patient relationship with a patient with an eating disorder is:

• A) Using confrontation to attack denial
• B) Placing the patient in a therapeutic group
• C) Formulating a therapeutic nurse-patient alliance
• D) Attacking enmeshment by separating patient and family

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