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D2AR0N · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

A nurse explained hospice services to a patient with metastatic cancer. In evaluating the teaching, the nurse determines the need for further information when the patient states that one of the services provided in hospice care is:

a. experimental chemotherapy.
b. symptom management.
c. psychosocial support.
d. nutritional counseling.

Question 2

To assist a busy homemaker and mother to relax, you might BEST begin by asking her to:

a. sit still for 15 minutes, three times a day
b. bring full attention to any task
c. attend a meditation workshop
d. learn to love others by giving more

lorealeza · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

A
Hospice care would not include any form of chemotherapy, which is a therapy generally intended to treat or cure cancer. Hospice care does involve pain and symptom management, nutritional counseling, physical/occupational/speech therapies, home health services for personal care, psychosocial and emotional support, grief counseling, and crisis care during medical emergencies.

Answer to Question 2

B
To assist a individual to relax, the nurse might begin by asking the individual to bring full attention to any task. By focusing on a specific task the individual can bring full attention to the task and determine if the task brings pleasant or negative feelings.