A Client Is Diagnosed with a Terminal Illness and Is

question 18

Multiple Choice

A client is diagnosed with a terminal illness and is demonstrating anxiety.What intervention can the nurse use to help the client at this time?

• A)Explore the client's history with other stressful life events and how successful coping was at that time.
• B)Teach the family that while talking with the client about death and dying is permissible,they should not allow the client to dwell on death.
• C)Supply information about the client's disease process and the expected trajectory of death only on a need-to-know basis.
• D)Encourage early pharmaceutical intervention with antianxiety and sedative medications.

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Definitions:

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