A nurse recognizes that the purpose of palliative care is to provide comprehensive care focused on:
1. Alleviating suffering and promoting quality of life.
2. Decreasing pain and prevention of medical complications.
3. Controlling side effects of illness while postponing death.
4. Withdrawing all medical care to allow natural death.
Alleviating suffering and promoting quality of life.
Rationale: The purpose of palliative care is to provide comprehensive care focused on alleviating suffering and promoting quality of life. Medical complications can be controlled but not prevented. The purpose is not specifically to postpone death. Withdrawing all medical care would be inappropriate, as it would cause more suffering.
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