A patient's insurance will not pay for continuing hospitalization at a private facility, so the family considers transferring the patient to a public psychiatric hospital
They express concern that the patient will never get any treatment. Select the nurse's most helpful reply.
a. Under the law, treatment must be provided. Hospitalization without treatment violates patients' rights.
b. That's a justifiable concern, because the right to treatment extends only to provision of food, shelter, and safety.
c. Much will depend on other patients, because the right to treatment for a psychotic patient takes precedence over the right to treatment of a patient who is stable.
d. All patients in public hospitals have the right to choose both a primary therapist and a primary nurse.
Question 2
A novice nurse asks, What is the role of psychopharmacology in the psychotherapeutic management model? A mentor should respond that psychopharmacology makes it possible to
a. use the least restrictive treatment alternatives.
b. prevent violence against nurses.
c. identify desirable outcomes.
d. determine psychopathology.
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