silly nursing questions

[onthee_escape]

 Sometimes it amazes me the question they ask us. The options are that are wrong are silly/rude or the correct answer really would not be okay to say to someone. I hate what would be the correct thing ti say to make someone feel better...b/c it really depends on the person. For example:

A female patient has alopecia from chemotherapy. Which

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[letitbe_]

Actually, all of those things would probably be ok depending on the pt. They tell us never to laugh or anything when our patients use the bathroom, especially w/ ostomies, bc the patients prob already have a poor self image. On Tuesday I had a patient and I was changing her ostomy and is functioned while I was doing it...she said, "shit happens." That would be a good time to laugh at a poop joke. (so d could work with the right patient)

But yeah. Therepeutic communication questions are dumb.