A child who knows about a terminal disease tells the nurse of ...

[Alainaaa8]

A child who knows about a terminal disease tells the nurse of plans to recover and become a doctor to cure everyone in the whole world. What is the child demonstrating to the nurse?
 
  A) Anxiety about the illness
  B) Bargaining stage of grief
  C) Immature magical thinking
  D) Poor opinion of the care received

Question 2

The parents of a 6-year-old have just been told that their child will die shortly. At which age does the nurse realize that children are capable of understanding death?
 
  A) 3 years
  B) 6 years
  C) 9 years
  D) 12 years

[sarah_brady415]

Answer to Question 1

B
Feedback:
Bargaining, a stage of the grief process, is attempting to work out a deal to prevent death from occurring. This child is not demonstrating anxiety, immature thinking, or a poor opinion of the care that has been received.

Answer to Question 2

C
Feedback:
As children near 8 or 9 years of age, they begin to appreciate that death is permanent. Younger children are not able to conceptualize the permanence of death. A 12-year-old child is able to conceptualize the permanence of death.