Assessment of a patient indicates complicated grief. Which statements would the nurse identify as supporting this reaction? Select all that apply.
A) It's been 2 months, and I still want my son back.
B) I still wait for him to come right through the door every day.
C) I'm really struggling with trusting anybody anymore.
D) I wish I could go back to the days before he died.
E) Life seems so empty now that he's gone. What will I do?
Question 2
A nurse is using motivational therapy with a female client with alcoholism. The client, who is unwilling to consider changing her drinking behavior, emphatically states, I am not an alcoholic; you can't make me stop drinking.
Which response by the nurse would be most appropriate?
A) You have to stop drinking and driving; you could kill someone.
B) You're right; you're not an alcoholic.
C) You should consider what you are doing to your marital relationship.
D) You're the only one who can make yourself stop drinking.
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