A client requests a minister to perform a healing ritual during her hospitalization for preterm labor. The nurse should:
a. determine if the practice is harmful to the current medical treatment
b. discuss with the client the lack of positive benefits associated with this practice
c. recommend this practice be done outside of the hospital environment
d. permit any ritual or symbolic healing system desired by the client
A
The nurse's responsibility is to protect the client from harm, so determining if the practice is harmful is the appropriate intervention. The nurse's responsibility is to determine if the practice is harmful, not to offer blanket endorsement of all complementary/alternative therapies.
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