You Are Caring for an Elder Who Is Experiencing Severe

You are caring for an elder who is experiencing severe chronic pain and suffering from a terminal illness despite your best nursing interventions to reduce the pain.Your patient has verbalized a desire to find "some sort of meaning to all of this." Which intervention would be most appropriate at this time?

A) Change the subject and introduce a distraction,such as television.
B) Reassure the elder that this is normal and that everyone experiences it.
C) Listen and facilitate expression of feelings about life and death.
D) Ask the doctor to order a psychiatric consult.

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