Author Question: A client in crisis comes to a busy Emergency Department (ED) for help. The ED is crowded and has ... (Read 34 times)

Starlight · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

A client in crisis comes to a busy Emergency Department (ED) for help. The ED is crowded and has little available space. The best space for conducting the crisis assessment would be:

1. The corridor
2. The ED waiting room
3. An ED cubicle with a gurney and chair
4. A psychiatric interview room with a desk and chairs

Question 2

A client at the crisis intervention clinic tells the nurse of the following problems: Her husband left her 1 year ago.

Her son was jailed on drug charges 6 months ago. She was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) 3 months ago. She was evicted yesterday and has no place to live. The problem that is appropriate for crisis intervention therapy is:
1. The marital problem
2. Her son's legal problem
3. The medical diagnosis of COPD
4. The homelessness issue

adf223 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: 4
An interview room would provide privacy and safety. Such a room would not contain items that could be thrown or used to strike the interviewer and would, in most agencies, have an alarm system that could be used in the event the client lost control. Options 1 and 2 do not provide privacy. Option 3 would be inappropriate because the client would have to sit or lie on the gurney and because the medical equipment in the cubicle could be used to harm the interviewer.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: 4
The most recent problem is the focus of crisis intervention. The client had maintained equilibrium until the straw that broke the camel's back was added. Thus that is the problem to address during crisis intervention. Options 1, 2, and 3 are older problems with which the client had coped.