The nurse is caring for a client who states, "No one can understand God." The nurse would document the client's spiritual belief as:
A) atheist.
B) agnostic.
C) theist.
D) holistic.
Ans: B
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Beliefs may range from atheism (denial of God's existence) to agnosticism (belief that God's reality is unknown and unknowable) to theism (belief that God's reality is personal, without a body, perfect in all things, and creator and sustainer of the universe).
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