A nurse advocating for an anxious patient newly diagnosed with a life-threatening illness would ask the health care provider to prescribe which type of medication?

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The patient's symptoms of anxiety need not meet the criteria for a formal psychiatric diagnosis in order to be treated.Pharmacological treatment with benzodiazepines is common practice,and nurses should initiate requests for a prescription if the patient does not already have one.

A Nurse Advocating for an Anxious Patient Newly Diagnosed with a Life-Threatening