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corkyiscool3328 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Extensive experience working as a caregiver with dying patients in a sensitive, supportive environment is associated with __________.

A) high death anxiety
B) low death anxiety
C) failure to develop a personal philosophy of death
D) knowledge that their own death fears are well founded

Question 2

When a family member insists that a patient not be told his or her prognosis, __________.

A) doctors and nurses should honor the family members request, regardless of the patients age
B) medical personnel can first offer information to the patient, and then, if the patient refuses, ask who should receive information
C) other family members and nurses should pretend there is nothing wrong in an attempt to prevent stress
D) this softens the patients psychological pain and makes dying much easier for the patient and the family