A client tells the nurse that her husband is repulsed by her colostomy and refuses to be intimate with her after surgery.Which is the nurse's best response?

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The nurse should collaborate with the ostomy nurse to help the client and her husband work through intimacy issues.The nurse should not minimize the client's concern about her husband with ways to hide the ostomy.The client will not hurt the stoma by becoming intimate with her husband.

A Client Tells the Nurse That Her Husband Is Repulsed