The nurse is assigned a patient scheduled for a penectomy as treatment for penile cancer. The patient says, "I am going to be a freak. I won't be a man after surgery."
The nurse recognizes that the patient connects having a penis with which aspect of sexuality?
a. Role and identity
b. Eroticism
c. Intimacy
d. Reproduction
ANS: A
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