A female client contracted AIDS while caring for an infected client in the ER of the local hospital. Which of the following statements suggests that she is in Nichols' second stage of the reaction process?
A) "This is unbelievable. I'm too young to die!"
B) "There must be some mistake. The laboratory technician must have tested the wrong blood."
C) "Why me? I have a wonderful husband, a new baby, and two other children."
D) "I can't put my family through this. I'm better off dead."
Ans: B
Nichols describes a four-stage process of grieving for the client with AIDS. The second stage is denial, in which the person may attempt to ignore the diagnosis of AIDS. Although it may serve a necessary psychic function, this denial can cause the client to engage in behaviors that are both self-destructive and potentially dangerous to others. Some clients begin to plunge into complete isolation, avoiding human contact as much as possible.
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