Choose the nursing intervention that is most appropriate in providing care to a 28-year-old mother of two children who is in the terminal stages of ovarian cancer but is still able to commu-nicate
a. Instruct her in the benefits and risks of new experimental cancer treatments.
b. Give her as much opportunity as possible for control over her care.
c. Allow her to verbalize her regrets and shortcomings of her life.
d. Limit the number of visits by her children to two per day.
B
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