The daughter of a client with terminal brain cancer wants a feeding tube placed so that the client will have nutrition to be cured of the disease. Which response should the nurse make to this daughter?
A) "What does your father want?"
B) "If your father is hungry he will find a way to eat without a stomach tube."
C) "Intravenous fluid contains enough nutrients to meet his nutritional needs."
D) "Palliative nutrition is focused on relieving discomfort and symptoms rather than cure."
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