Palliative Care Nursing

at a Glance

Christine Ingleton, Philip Larkin

Multiple Choice: Chapter 51 Stress in palliative care nursing

Question 1. Stress is a temporary imbalance in a person's emotional state and behaviour. We generally describe ourselves as stressed when:

A We are trying to explain why we cannot take on additional responsibility
B We feel overloaded and wonder whether we really can cope with the pressures placed upon us
C We have not had a holiday for a long time
D When a patient we have been caring for dies