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A patient with severe mental illness who lives independently in an apartment and attends a psychosocial rehabilitation program 4 days a week presents at the emergency department seeking admission to the inpatient psychiatric unit.
 
  The mental status examination reveals no acute symptoms of psychiatric disorder. Her chief complaint is that she has no money to pay her rent or refill her antipsychotic medication prescription. The best action for the emergency department nurse would be to: a. arrange for a short in-patient admission and begin discharge planning.
  b. send the patient to a homeless shelter until housing can be arranged.
  c. involve the patient's case manager to provide crisis intervention.
  d. explain that one must have more psychiatric symptoms to be admitted.
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