Which of the following nursing interventions follows the principles of palliative care?
1. Talk to the patient about plans for funeral arrangements.
2. Encourage physical therapy to restore prior level of functioning.
3. Talk to the patient about the possibility of becoming an organ donor.
4. Facilitate a consult to promote weight gain.
Talk to the patient about plans for funeral arrangements.
Rationale: Palliative care needs focus on pain and symptom management, end-of-life planning, and psychosocial as well as spiritual needs. Encouraging end-of-life planning such as funeral plans would be very appropriate. Encouraging weight gain is not necessary, and attempting to return to a prior level of functioning is not the goal. Organ donation is only possible when a patient experiences brain death on life support. This is also not the goal in hospice care.
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