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Bob-Dole

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on: Jul 11, 2018
A student learning about the early AIDS epidemic wonders why the patients were stigmatized. What response by the nurse was best?
 
  a. Fear of the unknown etiology
  b. Expense required government assistance
  c. Patients being ashamed of their illness
  d. Younger patients not having accomplish-ments

Question 2

A novice hospice nurse shows the best understanding of the nursing role related to an older adult patient's mourning over the loss of an adult child when stating
 
  a. I see mourning as a very individualized process.
  b. The patient's coping skills need to be assessed regularly.
  c. The patient needs all the help I can give to get better.
  d. Hopefully the patient will be in a healthy mental state soon.


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Dnite

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Reply #1 on: Jul 11, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Stigma arises out of specific characteristics of a disease or an unknown etiology, which causes fear. In the early days of the AIDS epidemic, not much was known about transmission, which generated fear in health care workers and the general population.

Answer to Question 2

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The goal of nursing care for older persons who are grieving and mourning is not to make them feel better quickly, although nurses are often tempted to try to do so. Nurses should assist and support bereaved persons through the grieving process, recognizing that pain is a normal and healthy response to loss and allowing bereaved persons to accomplish the tasks of mourning in their own ways.


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Reply 2 on: Jul 11, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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Excellent

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