You are helping a newly admitted patient and his son compile a list of personal belongings. The elderly patient has dementia, and he is unable to understand much about the process. Worse, the patient is agitated and keeps wringing his hands. When it comes time to list the patient’s wedding band, it appears to have gone missing from the patient’s hand. The patient’s son accuses you or one of your coworkers of stealing the ring, since he saw it on his father’s hand a little while ago. You calmly call a supervisor to the room to help you look for the ring. After all, you say, the ring might have fallen off of the patient’s hand when he was wringing his hands.

get angry at the patient’s son for accusing you.

tell the patient’s son he needs to search his father’s chair and the floor around it for the ring, since it might have fallen off when he was wringing his hands.

tell the patient’s son there is nothing you can do if the ring is not there when you are compiling the list.