Which of the following is a useful nursing intervention in treatment of anxiety associated with receiving a terminal diagnosis?
A)
Encourage early pharmaceutical intervention with antianxiety and sedative medications.
B)
Teach the family that while talking with the client about death and dying is permissible, they should not allow the client to dwell on death.
C)
Supply information about the client's disease process and the expected trajectory of death only on a need-to-know basis.
D)
Explore the client's history with other stressful life events, and how successful coping was at that time.
D
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