The nurse working with an older adult client with the diagnosis Chronic low self-esteem would use reminiscence as an aid to increasing self-esteem because it promotes a sense of:
1. competence/mastery.
2. power/control.
3. acceptance/worthiness.
4. moral worth/virtue.
ANS: 2
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