The nurse is caring for a patient who has just received a cancer diagnosis. The patient is crying. The nurse recognizes this patient is operating on what level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
1. Self-esteem
2. Love and belonging
3. Safety
4. Self-actualization
ANS: 3
Cancer diagnoses often result in fear of death, even when the patient is told the disease is curable, so this patient is operating at the level of safety as he or she copes with the fear of death.
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