The medical chart states that the parents are requesting "withdrawal of care" for a child with terminal leukemia. The nurse understands this request to mean:
1. To keep support measures which sustain life for the child.
2. To keep providing comfort care for the child.
3. To stop life-saving measures and allow the child to die naturally.
4. To stop providing comfort measures for the child.
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1. Support measures are not wanted by the parents.
2. Comfort care is important, but this addresses the life-sustaining measures.
3. Withdrawal of care relates to stopping heroic measures to sustain life.
4. Comfort is essential in the last days of life for the family and the patient.
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