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cartlidgeashley · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

A nursing student is conducting a clinical conference and is describing the characteristics associated with milieu therapy. Which of the following statements, if made by the student, indi-cates an understanding of the focus of this form of therapy?

1. Milieu therapy provides a cognitive approach to changing behavior.
2. A living, learning, or working environment is the focus of milieu therapy.
3. Milieu therapy provides a behavior modification approach type of therapy.
4. A behavioral approach to changing behavior is the focus of milieu therapy.

Question 2

The nurse is providing home care instructions to a mother of a 9-year-old child diagnosed with viral conjunctivitis. Antibiotic eye drops are prescribed for the child. The nurse would instruct the mother that the child:

1. Can return to school immediately
2. Cannot return to school until seen by the physician in 1 week
3. Should be kept at home until the antibiotic eye drops have been administered for 1 week
4. Should be kept at home until the antibiotic eye drops have been administered for 24 hours

Tonny · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 22, 2018

Answer to Question 1

2

Rationale: Milieu therapy, or therapeutic community, has as its focus a living, learning, or working environment. Such therapy may be based on any number of therapeutic modalities, from structured behavioral therapy to spontaneous, humanistically oriented approaches. Although mi-lieu therapy may include behavioral approaches, its primary focus is described in the correct op-tion.

Answer to Question 2

4

Rationale: Viral conjunctivitis is extremely contagious. The child should be kept home from school or day care until the child has received antibiotic eye drops for 24 hours. Can return to school immediately, cannot return to school until seen by the physician in 1 week, and should be kept at home until the antibiotic eye drops have been administered for 1 week are incorrect.