
The nurse assesses a terminal illness in:
A) a 76-year-old admitted to a nursing home with Alzheimer disease who is pacing and asking to go home.
B) a 43-year-old with Lou Gehrig's disease who is refusing food and fluid.
C) a 2-year-old child who burned her esophagus by drinking drain cleaner and who is being fed by a tube.
D) a 52-year-old diagnosed with lung cancer who had part of one lung removed and has a closed chest drainage device in place.
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