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A client with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has been cleaning a bathroom for most of the morning. When the roommate demands that the client leave the bathroom so that the roommate can shower, the client becomes angry and says, "You can't make me leave, everything is still dirty." What is the best nursing action?

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You can say "You can finish that later, just please let me take a shower"

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Hi !

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Say everything is very clean, reassure him, speak calmly.

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