A Client Is Newly Diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Spends

question 8

Multiple Choice

A client is newly diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder and spends 45 minutes folding clothes and rearranging them in drawers.Which nursing intervention would best address this client's problem?

• A) Distract the client with other activities whenever ritual behaviors begin.
• B) Report the behavior to the psychiatrist to obtain an order for medication dosage increase.
• C) Lock the room to discourage ritualistic behavior.
• D) Discuss the anxiety-provoking triggers that precipitate the ritualistic behaviors.

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Definitions:

Reason

The mental capacity to logically identify, analyze, and integrate information to form conclusions or judgments.

Cultural Relativist

Someone who believes that moral and ethical systems, which vary from culture to culture, are all equally valid and no one system is really "better" than another.

Morally Required

Actions or behaviors that are considered necessary according to ethical or moral principles.

Culture

The shared beliefs, practices, norms, and values of a group of people or society.