A Client Says,"My Doctor Told Me That I Have COPD

A client says,"My doctor told me that I have COPD and might develop emphysema.I always thought I had chronic bronchitis." How should the nurse respond to this statement? Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.

A) "Are you certain he didn't say you have asthma?"
B) "Chronic bronchitis doesn't have anything to do with COPD."
C) "COPD is either asthma,chronic bronchitis,or emphysema,or a combination of those disorders.
D) "As COPD progresses it becomes emphysema."
E) "Both diagnoses are correct."