A Client Is Diagnosed with Terminal Cancer

question 6

Multiple Choice

A client is diagnosed with terminal cancer.Which situation would the nurse assess as reflecting Kübler-Ross's grief stage of "anger"?

• A) The client registers for an iron-man marathon to be held in 9 months.
• B) The client is a devoted Catholic but refuses to attend church and states that his faith has failed him.
• C) The client promises God to give up smoking if allowed to live long enough to witness a grandchild's birth.
• D) The client gathers family in order to plan a funeral and make last wishes known.

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Definitions:

Intrapersonal

Relating to or within a person's own mind or self.

Interquartile Range

The difference between the 75th and 25th percentiles of a data set, representing the middle 50%.

Third Quartile

The value below which 75% of the data fall, often represented as Q3 in statistics.

First Quartile

The 25th percentile of a data set, below which lies 25% of the data.