A Nurse Working with Clients on a Hospice Service Understands

question 18

Multiple Choice

A nurse working with clients on a hospice service understands that a client's quality of life is often linked to

• A) projections about the amount of time that the client can expect to live.
• B) strength and remaining physical ability to perform self-care.
• C) symptom distress and the meanings attached to these physical sensations.
• D) the number of family and friends who remain as a support system.

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Definitions:

Feeling

An emotional state or reaction, which can encompass physical sensations as well as moods and attitudes.

Inferiority

A feeling of being lower in status or quality than others, often leading to decreased self-esteem.

Adler

Alfred Adler, an Austrian medical doctor and psychotherapist, known for his contributions to psychology including the development of individual psychology and ideas about inferiority complex.

Individualism

A social theory favoring freedom of action for individuals over collective or state control.