When preparing for palliative care with the dying client, the nurse should provide the family with which explanation?
a. "In palliative care, no attempts are to be made to resuscitate a client whose breathing or heart stops."
b. "The goal of palliative care is to give clients the best quality of life by the aggressive management of symptoms."
c. "The client will have to go to an inpatient hospice unit in order to receive palliative care."
d. "Palliative care is the gradual withdrawal of mechanical ventilation from a client with terminal illness and poor prognosis."
Ans: b. "The goal of palliative care is to give clients the best quality of life by the aggressive management of symptoms."
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