The nurse is caring for a 15-year-old who just delivered a 32-weeks'-gestation stillborn infant with numerous defects. In caring for this patient, the nurse knows that:
1. The patient will likely do no grieving, as she is so young and the pregnancy was probably a mistake in any case.
2. Adolescents have a sense of invulnerability, an "It can't happen to me" mentality.
3. The patient's mother will handle her daughter's grief, so the nurse doesn't need to be concerned.
4. The nurse will remove the baby before the patient sees it.
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Rationale 1: Adolescents often feel a high level of grief, as this is often the first loss they have experienced.
Rationale 2: Adolescents feel removed from death because they are so young. A perinatal death might be their first experience of death.
Rationale 3: The nurse needs to be there for the patient. It is not appropriate to depend on the mother to help with the grieving.
Rationale 4: The patient has the right to see the baby if she wishes.
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