A patient diagnosed with a serious mental illness lives independently and attends a psychosocial ...

A patient diagnosed with a serious mental illness lives independently and attends a psychosocial rehabilitation program. The patient presents at the emergency department seeking hospitalization. The patient has no acute symptoms but says,
 
  I have no money to pay my rent or refill my prescription. Select the nurse's best action.
 
  a. Involve the patient's case manager to provide crisis intervention.
  b. Send the patient to a homeless shelter until housing can be arranged.
  c. Arrange for a short in-patient admission and begin discharge planning.
  d. Explain that one must have active psychiatric symptoms to be admitted.