The nurse helps a client to overcome stress and pressure. A nurse is caring for a client with stress; the client has lost an arm after a motorcycle accident
What issue is most important in relation to the family should the nurse consider when caring for this client? A) How the accident will impact the client's ability to meet personal fulfillment
B) Depletion of current financial resources
C) How will the children be affected by the client's inability to care for them?
D) Who will assist in changing the client's bandage until the arm is healed and no infection is present?
D
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The five basic functions of the family are providing physical health, providing mental health, socializing members, reproducing and providing economic well-being. Based on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, physiologic needs must be met before dealing with more complex and higher level needs, such as how the accident will impact the client's ability to meet personal fulfillment; depletion of current financial resources; and how will the children be affected by the client's inability to care for them.
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