The nurse sits at the bedside of a comatose, terminally ill older client reading the wishes expressed in the numerous cards the client has received. Which concept of grief work is the nurse addressing with this intervention?
a. Everyone needs social interaction
b. The nurse needs to 'attend to the patient'
c. Hearing is believed to be the last sense to be lost
d. The individual is living until they are dead
ANS: D
An individual is living until he or she has died; the nurse works with the elder and significant others to maintain as high a quality of life as possible before, during and after the loss or death. While the other options are true they are not directly involved in grief work.
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