The Nurse Is Caring for a Terminally Ill Client Who

question 5

Multiple Choice

The nurse is caring for a terminally ill client who frequently engages in prayer with her family.The most therapeutic nursing intervention for this client regarding this practice would be to:

• A) Move the family into the unit's sunroom for the ritual
• B) Ask the client and her family to be allowed to pray with the group
• C) Offer to arrange for the facility's chaplain to attend the prayer session
• D) Schedule the client's physical therapy treatments to avoid being an interruption

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Definitions:

Short-Term Memory

The capacity of the brain to hold a small amount of information in an active, readily available state for a short period of time.

Visual Coding

Visual coding involves the process by which the brain and nervous system encode visual information, transforming light stimuli received by the eye into neural signals that can be interpreted to form visual images.

Acoustical Coding

The process by which sounds are represented and remembered in the memory system.

Long-Term Memory

A type of memory capable of storing large amounts of information for potentially unlimited durations, including facts, experiences, and skills.