A nurse is working with a dying client. The nurse best demonstrates support of dying with dignity when completing which nursing action?
A) Allows the client to make as many decisions as possible about care
B) Tells the client own views about the afterlife
C) Does not talk about the impending death and only focuses on current care needed
D) Completes most of physical care for the client
A
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Assisting the client to die with dignity involves the client participating and choosing the remainder of life and supporting the acceptance stage of dying. Sharing the nurse's own views about life after death does not support the client's own influence of culture, ethnicity, or religious beliefs. Only when a client requests assistance should the nurse provide it, because otherwise the nurse is not supporting the client's acceptance of the final stage of growth and development.
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