Answer: 2 Nurses must identify their own feelings and prejudices because these may affect the ability to provide objective nonjudgmental nursing care. Exploring a client's emotional well-being can be accomplished only after the nurse works through one's own feelings. The focus should be on the client not the family. Health team members should work together for the benefit of all clients not just this client.
A client is admitted to the hospital for an elective surgical procedure. The client tells a nurse about the emotional stress of recently disclosing being a homosexual to family and friends. What is the nurse's first consideratio...