Basic Nursing 1st Edition by Judith Wilkinson, Leslie Treas

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Patient Situation
Lani Ettinger is a 30-year-old woman, married, with three school-age children. She has just had a mastectomy (removal of a breast) because her biopsy was positive for cancer. The surgery was uncomplicated, the cancer was removed at an early stage, and she is expected to recover completely. As you are helping her prepare to leave the hospital, she begins crying.
Thinking
Critical Thinking (Contextual Awareness): Which of those developmental tasks is/are most likely to be affected by Lani's mastectomy and her emotional reaction to it?