The home health nurse helps a grieving widow to start grief resolution by:
a. distracting her with social conversation.
b. encouraging her to verbalize her grief.
c. pointing out behaviors that are not helpful to grief resolution.
d. focusing on her loneliness and loss.
ANS: B
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