A nurse working with clients on a hospice service understands that a client's quality of life is often linked to
a. projections about the amount of time that the client can expect to live.
b. strength and remaining physical ability to perform self-care.
c. symptom distress and the meanings attached to these physical sensations.
d. the number of family and friends who remain as a support system.
C
A person's quality of life is often linked to the experience of symptom distress and the meaning that the person assigns to these physical sensations.
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