The Nurse Assigned to Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Should Explain

Multiple Choice

The nurse assigned to assertive community treatment (ACT) should explain the program's treatment goal as which of the following?

A) Assisting patients to maintain abstinence from alcohol and other substances of abuse
B) Providing structure and a therapeutic milieu for mentally ill patients whose symptoms require stabilization
C) Maintaining medications and stable psychiatric status for incarcerated inmates who have a history of mental illness
D) Providing services for mentally ill individuals who require intensive treatment to continue to live in the community