Question

A client on a psychiatric unit who has been hearing voices is receiving a neuroleptic medication for the first time. The client takes the cup of water and the pill and stares at them. What is the most therapeutic statement the nurse can make?

1 "You have to take your medicine."2 "This is the medication that your doctor ordered."3 "This will help you not to hear the voices. It will only work if you take it."4 "There must be a reason that you don't want to take your medicine."

Answer 1

3. "This will help you not to hear the voices. It will only work if you take it" Will be the most therapeutic statement made by the nurse to the client in the psychiatric unit.

Step-by-step explanation:

A psychiatric patient hears voices or has auditory verbal hallucinations due to psychotic disorders like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder etc. Patients with psychosis tend to hear voices which are not real but can either talk to them or command them to do something, mostly harmful things.

Neuroleptic medications are antipsychotics which help to treat psychotic disorders. Hence in order to treat the auditory hallucinatory symptoms and treat the client from hearing voices, the client should take the pill.