A newly licensed nurse is preparing to provide postmortem care for the first time and asks for help. What is the staff nurse's best response?
1. "Postmortem care is something that a nurse must learn to do. Take out all tubes and clean the body."
2. "Family members rarely ask to see the body so just clean the deceased from the shoulders and up."
3. "You can delegate this to the nursing assistant since it is within their scope of care."
4. "Providing postmortem care shows respect and dignity to the patient. But I can understand that you are nervous."
4. "Providing postmortem care shows respect and dignity to the patient. But I can understand that you are nervous."
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