Kiyoshi Is a Patient in ICU

question 20

Multiple Choice

Kiyoshi is a patient in ICU.He is beginning to realize that there is a machine which is helping him to breathe.According to Pallavinci-Gonzalez and colleagues (1995) he would be classified as being in the

• A)monitor stage
• B)blunting stage
• C)6incommunication stage
• D)reflexion stage

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