A female client has just died. Her family is requesting that all nursing staff leave the room. The family’s religious leader has arrived and is ready to conduct a ceremony for the deceased in the room, requesting that only family members be present. The nurse assigned to the client should perform the appropriate nursing action, which might include:
A. Inform the family that it is the hospital’s policy not to conduct religious ceremonies in client rooms.
B. Refuse to leave the room because the client’s body is entrusted in the nurse’s care until it can be brought to the morgue.
C. Tell the family that they may conduct their ceremony in the client’s room; however, the nurse must attend.
D. Respect the client’s family’s wishes.
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