[Verified Answer]: The nurse asks the patient if he ate his lunch

The nurse asks the patient if he ate his lunch. The patient talks for 5 minutes about how he is asked that question frequently, wonders why, it seems to him that it’s the only thing people think about, why does the nurse care anyway whether he eats or not, what does this have to do with why he is in the hospital, how is the nurse going to use this information, will this go in the medical record and anyway yes he ate his lunch. How will the nurse document this alteration in speech? a. Flight of ideas b. Thought blocking c. Circumstantiality d. Tangentiality