A cognitively impaired patient has been a widow for 30 years. This patient frantically tries to leave the facility, saying, "I have to go home to cook dinner before my husband arrives from work." To intervene with validation therapy, the nurse will say:

A) "You must come away from the door."
B) "You have been a widow for many years."
C) "You want to go home to prepare your husband's dinner?"
D) "Your husband gets angry if you do not have dinner ready on time?"

Cognitively Impaired

Referring to individuals who have difficulty with mental processes such as attention, memory, understanding, and problem solving.

Validation Therapy

A therapeutic approach that involves acknowledging and validating the feelings and experiences of people with cognitive impairments, often used with dementia patients.

Frantically Tries

Engages in hurried, desperate efforts or attempts to accomplish something, often characterized by chaotic and frenzied actions.