The crisis nurse is interviewing a client who has come to the center in a state of severe anxiety. Which intervention would the nurse initiate first?
1. Determining the crisis-precipitating event
2. Talking with a family friend about the client
3. Requesting a copy of old health information
4. Outlining a strategy to deal with the panic
Question 2
A new nurse mentions, I can understand a situational crisis upsetting a person's equilibrium, but I don't understand how something positive, like getting married or having a baby, can precipitate a crisis.
To explain, the mentor should answer, You need to think of a crisis as a(n):
1. threat to the familiar.
2. threat to survival.
3. opportunity to learn.
4. psychiatric disorder.