The Nurse Has Cared for a Patient for Several Days

Multiple Choice

The nurse has cared for a patient for several days.The patient is terminal and is very near death.The nurse notices the heart rate on the monitor decreasing and then the absence of a pattern.The family is standing at the patient's bed,and when the nurse checks the patient and finds no pulse or blood pressure,the family begins sobbing and hugging each other.Some hold the patient's hand.The nurse is overwhelmed by the presence of grief and leaves the room to cry in the nurses' lounge.What is the nurse demonstrating?

A) Task-oriented touch
B) Caring touch
C) Protective touch
D) None of the above