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A preoperative patient says to the nurse, “I hope I wake up after surgery. I don’t know what my family would do if I didn’t.” The nurse realizes this patient is demonstrating which nursing diagnosis?
1. coping
2. chronic sorrow
3. anticipatory grieving
4. death anxiety
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11 years ago
3 -- Anticipatory grieving is a combination of intellectual and emotional responses and behavior by which people adjust their self-concept in the face of a potential loss. Chronic sorrow and death anxiety are not nursing diagnoses. This patient is expressing a feeling, not demonstrating coping.
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