A mother of a 5-year-old child, with complex health care needs and cared for at home, expresses anxiety about attending a kindergarten graduation exercise of a neighbor's child
The mother says, "I wish it could be my child graduating from kindergarten." The nurse recognizes that the mother is experiencing:
a. abnormal anxiety.
b. ineffective coping.
c. chronic sorrow.
d. denial.
ANS: C
Home care nurses should be aware that parents may experience chronic sorrow as a parental stressor. Chronic sorrow as a normal grief response is associated with a living loss (the loss of a healthy child) that is cyclical in nature. This is a normal response and does not indicate abnormal anxiety, ineffective coping, or denial.
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