You should assess individuals for possible spiritual distress when they experience a change in their life or a crisis such as

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Spiritual distress is the state in which a patient feels that the belief system,or her place within it,is threatened.Commonly,the circumstances in which nurses find themselves providing care-birth,accidents,illness,and the dying process-are the same events that provoke spiritual distress.Any threat to one's own life,any reminder of one's own mortality,can evoke spiritual distress.Options "a," "c," and "d" usually do not threaten a patient's belief system or cause spiritual distress.

You Should Assess Individuals for Possible Spiritual Distress When They