The nurse is caring for the client in the preoperative period and documenting rationale for a palliative surgical procedure. Which rationale is most appropriate?
A) The physician needs additional information to plan medical treatment.
B) The client wishes to improve body structures and elects a procedure.
C) The physician is repairing a deformity from birth or disease process.
D) The client and physician are focusing on symptom relief not a cure.
D
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The nurse realizes a palliative surgical procedure is focused on the relief of symptoms or enhancement of function without a cure. Diagnostic surgical procedures provide additional information for medical diagnosis and treatment. Cosmetic surgery procedures are elective, with the purpose of improving body appearance. Reconstructive surgery corrects a deformity.
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