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An 82-year-old woman with a gangrenous foot refuses a below-knee amputation. She is oriented to person, place and time and tells the nurse, 'I know I may die without it, but I won't live without my leg.' Her daughter says, 'She's confused; you have to make her have it.' What is the nurse's best action?
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