A Nurse Tells the Unit Supervisor,"I'm Having a Difficult Time

A nurse tells the unit supervisor,"I'm having a difficult time empathizing with my patient especially since he is so unwilling to change.Talking with him makes me feel both frustrated and depressed." The supervisor may suspect that the cause of the barrier in this nurse-client relation is the:

A) existence of countertransference on the part of the nurse.
B) patient's demonstration of resistance to the prescribed plan of care.
C) violation of a therapeutic boundary by either the nurse or the patient.
D) nurse's ineffective use of therapeutic verbal communication techniques.