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Psychosocial Integrity

The daughter of a hospitalized client who is dying has been crying outside the client’s room. The nurse determines that the daughter is experiencing:

ExplanationThe nursing diagnosis of Anticipatory Grieving is grieving based on the perception of potential loss. The characteristics of loss, personal resources and stressors, and sociocultural resources and stressors affect the grief process. Loss is defined as the experience of parting with an object, person, belief, or relationship that one values; the loss requires a reorganization of one or more aspects of the person’s life.