A client’s family tells the nurse that their culture does not permit a dead person to be left alone before burial. Hospital policy states that after 6:00 pm when mortuaries are closed, bodies are to...

A client’s family tells the nurse that their culture does not permit a dead person to be left alone before burial. Hospital policy states that after 6:00 pm when mortuaries are closed, bodies are to be stored in the hospital morgue refrigerator until the next day. How would the nurse best manage this situation?

1. Gently explain the policy to the family and then implement it.

 2. Inquire of the nursing supervisor how an exception to the policy could be made.

3. Call the client’s primary care provider for advice.

4. Move the deceased to an empty room and assign an aide to stay with the body.