The nurse is working in a post-partum unit and is assigned to care for a woman who experienced fetal demise at 40 weeks. The nurse is not comfortable caring for this type of patient, so the best course action for the nurse to take is to:
1. Take the patient and provide the care needed. No one is good at providing care to patients who experience fetal demise.
2. Talk to the charge nurse and see if there is a nurse with more experience in caring for patients who experience a fetal demise.
3. Take the patient. All nurses need to learn to take care of patients who experience a death.
4. Talk to the charge nurse and refuse to take the patient. It is not fair to take a patient the nurse is not comfortable with caring for.
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1. It is the responsibility of the nurse to not care for the patient.
2. The best response for the nurse to have is to see if there is a better option; if a nurse is uncomfortable with providing end-of-life care and there is a better option, it is the responsibility of the nurse to not care for the patient.
3. It is the responsibility of the nurse to not care for the patient.
4. The best response for the nurse to have is to see if there is a better option.
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