After doing well for a period of time, a child with leukemia develops an overwhelming infection. The child's death is imminent. Which of the following statements offers the nurse the best guide in making plans to assist the parents in dealing with their child's imminent death?
1. Knowing that the prognosis is poor helps prepare relatives for the death of children.
2. Relatives are especially grieved when a child does well at first but then declines rapidly.
3. Trust in health care personnel is most often destroyed by a death that is considered untimely.
4. It is more difficult for relatives to accept the death of an older child than that of a toddler.
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