To help alleviate spiritual distress in a client, the nurse should:
a. learn as much as possible about the client's religious traditions.
b. offer to pray with the client.
c. find out what the client perceives their spiritual needs to be.
d. recognize that if the client put "none" under "religion" on their admission records, they are not spiritual and do not need spiritual-based interventions.
ANS: C
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