A Community Mental Health Nurse Has Worked for Months to Establish

Multiple Choice

A community mental health nurse has worked for months to establish a relationship with a delusional, suspicious patient. The patient recently lost employment and could no longer afford prescribed medications. The patient says, "Only a traitor would make me go to the hospital." Select the nurse's best initial intervention.

A) Collaborate with the patient to contact resources to provide medications without charge temporarily.
B) Arrange a bed in a local homeless shelter with nightly on-site supervision.
C) Hospitalize the patient until the symptoms have stabilized.
D) Ask the patient, "Do you feel like I am a traitor?"