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A client on the psychiatric unit tells the nurse that someone has put poison in the food and she wants the nurse to warn everyone not to eat today.
 
  When the lunch trays arrive, the client becomes very agitated and starts walking around trying to knock the food out of other clients' hands. The client is taken to her room where she accuses the nurse and staff of being involved in a plot to kill her. She does accept an IM injection that calms her and she goes to sleep. Which nursing diagnosis did the nurse document? A) Alterations in thought (delusions) related to concern for others and powerlessness
  B) Alterations in nutrition (impaired) related to belief that the food is poisoned (persecution)
  C) Potential for harm (self and others) related to fear of being poisoned; (persecution)
  D) Altered perceptions related to misinterpretation of the environment, cognitive impairment
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