The nurse is caring for a family that is experiencing a crisis. The nu

QUESTION

The nurse is caring for a family that is experiencing a crisis. The nurse recognizes that interventions for initial family responses to crisis include

a. minimizing the family’s sense of control within the hospital environment.
b. prohibiting extreme expression of feelings.
c. providing the family with information that is lengthy and abstract.
d. repeating and frequently reinforcing information.

ANSWER:

ANS: D
Interventions for initial family responses to crisis include repeating information and frequently reinforcing it. They also include the following: maximizing control within the hospital environment; providing for and encouraging or allowing expression of feelings, even if they are extreme; and giving information that is brief, concise, explicit, and concrete.