The nurse is caring for an older adult client who has recently lost her husband. The client says, “No one cares about me anymore. All the people I loved are dead.” Which response by the nurse is...

The nurse is caring for an older adult client who has recently lost her husband. The client says, “No one cares about me anymore. All the people I loved are dead.” Which response by the nurse is therapeutic?

1. “Right! Why not just ‘pack it in’?”

2. “That seems rather unlikely to me.”

3. “I don’t believe that, and neither do you.”

4. “You must be feeling all alone at this point.”