The nurse working on an acute psychiatric unit learns that a client with bipolar disorder is being ...

Correct Answer: 1
Rationale 1: Knowing, according to Swanson, is striving to understand an event as it has meaning in the life of the other. A subdimension of this process is avoiding assumptions. The nurse in this situation made an assumption about clients with bipolar disorder.
Rationale 2: Being with is being emotionally present to another person.
Rationale 3: Doing for is providing for others as they would do for themselves if it were possible.
Rationale 4: Enabling is facilitating the other's passage through life transitions and unfamiliar events.