The nurse is working with a hospitalized preschool-age child. The nurse is planning activities to reduce anxiety in this child. Which is the most appropriate action by the nurse?
1. Provide the child with a doll and safe medical equipment.
2. Read a story to the child.
3. Use an anatomically correct doll to teach the child about the illness.
4. Talk to the child about the hospitalization.
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Rationale:
1. Therapeutic play is a means of anxiety reduction in the hospitalized child. Allowing the child to play with safe medical equipment is an age-appropriate method through which the child can express feelings, thereby reducing anxiety.
2. Reading a story to the child does not allow for expression of feelings.
3. Anatomically correct dolls are not age-appropriate.
4. Talking to the child might be beneficial, but it does not allow for active release of frustration and anxiety.
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