Nurse Elena Wants to Do All She Can to Help

question 68

Multiple Choice

Nurse Elena wants to do all she can to help her terminally ill patients.She can accomplish this by __________.

• A) providing pain medication and assuring her patients that they are going to recover soon
• B) talking to patients' families about death's certainty, but shielding the patients from that information
• C) helping her patients learn enough about their condition to make reasoned choices about whether to fight on or end treatment
• D) avoiding discussions about the past and minimizing her patients' personal control over the final phase of life

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