You should assess individuals for possible spiritual distress when they experience a change in their life or a crisis such as
a. changing jobs. c. planning elective surgery.
b. a serious or chronic illness. d. the retirement of their spiritual leader.
B
Spiritual distress is the state in which a patient feels that the belief system, or her place within it, is threatened. Commonly, the circumstances in which nurses find themselves providing care—birth, accidents, illness, and the dying process—are the same events that provoke spiritual distress. Any threat to one's own life, any reminder of one's own mortality, can evoke spiritual distress. Options "a," "c," and "d" usually do not threaten a patient's belief system or cause spiritual distress.
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