You notice that your client, who had abdominal surgery, demonstrates many of the values associated with being brought up as an Irish Catholic
After surgery, your client was weak from having been severely anemic. On the day of discharge, the client is quiet and won't say what is of concern, which you believe might be related to the client's cultural ways. After talking with the client's family member, you arrange for home assistance for the client's first week after discharge. You are applying which nursing theorist's nursing theory?
1. Hildegarde Peplau
2. Faye Abdellah
3. Dorothea Orem
4. Madeleine Leininger
ANS: 4
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