The nurse is caring for a client admitted for complications following an abortion. The nurse values adoption over abortion. How will the nurse best serve this patient?
1.
Discussing her feeling about adoption with the client
2.
Asking the charge nurse for an alternate assignment
3.
Clustering care so she will not have to go into the room often
4.
Ask the local chapter of Planned Parenthood to meet with the client.
ANS: 2
Abortion is against the nurse's personal values, so the nurse should ask the charge nurse to change her assignment. The nurse was better able to serve the client because she was familiar with her own personal values.
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