A woman tells the BSN-prepared community health nurse that she and her son fight all the time since the son started using drugs.The son tells his mother that his drug use is none of her business.Which initial response by the nurse would be most appropriate?

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Informal,separate conversations will help establish trust and develop an effective nurse-patient relationship while helping the nurse assess individual and family functioning.It is also important that the perspectives of all family members be heard and considered.A BSN-prepared nurse is not certified to conduct family therapy.Threatening the son to get him into drug treatment would be coercive and intensify the dysfunction that already exists in their relationship.Drug abuse education would be helpful at a later point but not as an initial response;doing so without a nurse-patient relationship would likely cause him to tune out the nurse.

A Woman Tells the BSN-Prepared Community Health Nurse That She