Which clinical manifestation alerts the nurse to the fact that the terminally ill client is approaching death?
A. The client calls one son by the other son's name.
B. The client's extremities are cold and mottled.
C. The client asks to see a minister.
D. The client's pain is increasing.
B
As death nears, peripheral circulation decreases, causing the client's skin to become cold, mottled, and cyanotic. Usually, this change progresses from the distal to the proximal extremity locations.
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