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Question:

A client has recently been told he has terminal cancer. As the nurse enters the room, he yells, “My eggs are cold, and I’m tired of having my sleep interrupted by noisy nurses!” The nurse may interpret the client’s behavior as

A An expression of the anger stage of dying
explanation

the anger stage of Kubler-Ross’s stages of dying, the individual resists the loss and may strike out at everyone and everything, in this case, the nurse. A dying person will lose everything and everybody that is important to him, and is entitled to feel angry.

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