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NUR 155 LOSS GRIEVING AND DEATH EXAM QUESTIONS AND 100% APPROVED CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+ 2025 FIRST CLASS PASS 2025 EXAM  NUR 155 LOSS GRIEVING AND DEATH EXAM QUESTIONS AND 100% APPROVED CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+ 2025 FIRST CLASS PASS The nurse is caring for the family of a terminally ill client. The family members have been tearful and sad since the diagnosis was given. What is the best nursing diagnosis problem statement for this family? A Anticipatory Grieving B Dysfunctional Grieving C Hopelessness D Caregiver Role Strain - CORRECT ANSWER A Rationale 1: Grieving prior to the actual loss is termed anticipatory grieving. The nurse critically evaluates various models of grief used for terminally ill clients and their families. What should the nurse recognize when applying these models to individual cases? - CORRECT ANSWER No clear timetables exist, nor are there clear-cut stages of grief. A client is diagnosed with a terminal illness and is demonstrating anxiety. What intervention can the nurse use to help the client at this time? A Explore the client's history with other stressful life events and how successful coping was at that time. B Teach the family that while talking with the client about death and dying is permissible, they should not allow the client to dwell on death. C Supply information about the client's disease process and the expected trajectory of death only on a need-to-know basis. D Encourage early pharmaceutical intervention with antianxiety and sedative medications. - CORRECT ANSWER A Rationale 1: It is most helpful for the nurse to know how the client has dealt with previous stressful life events so that support of positive coping mechanisms can occur. The client who has received a terminal diagnosis needs to discuss the future and the implications of the diagnosis. During the bath, the client suddenly says, "I am not going to get well. I think I am going to die." What response given by the nurse is most appropriate? - CORRECT ANSWER Let's think of something more cheerful." B "You are doing so well; don't talk like that." C "What makes you think you are dying?" D "Whatever is meant to be will happen." C Rationale 3: The nurse should ask what it is that makes the client think about dying. This allows the nurse to collect and evaluate data before making a further response. The family of a young adult client who has recently been diagnosed with a rapidly progressing terminal illness tells the nurse, This cannot be happening. There must be some mistake in the testing. What should be the nurses first step in assisting this family? 1. Provide structure and continuity to promote feelings of security. 2. Examine the nurses own feelings to ensure denial is not shared. 3. Offer spiritual support. 4. Allow the family to express sadness. - CORRECT ANSWER Examine the nurse's own feelings to ensure denial is not shared. Rationale 2: The nurse must first self-examine feelings to ensure that the nurse's behaviors do not demonstrate denial of the situation.

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NUR 155 LOSS GRIEVING AND DEATH
EXAM QUESTIONS AND 100% APPROVED
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+ 2025
FIRST CLASS PASS




2025 EXAM




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