Hospitalized with increasing shortness of breath

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Your patient is a 60-year-old woman with lung cancer who is hospitalized with increasing shortness of breath. She is currently receiving second-line chemotherapy treatment and recently completed palliative radiation to rib metastases. She lives with her husband and has two adult children who live out of state. As you are administering her morning medications, she asks, "Why did God do this to me? What did I do to deserve this?" How will you facilitate an interprofessional discussion to address the patient's spiritual concerns? What members of the interdisciplinary team are essential to include?

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