The appropriate nursing intervention would be to initiate a consultation with the hospital chaplain and the patient. Cultural competence in healthcare should be applied, in order for the patient to receive care services that meet his religious, cultural and spiritual needs. In this example, the hospital chaplain could provide spiritual guidance and counselling.
A fertilized egg developing is called an embryo. You can rule out unfertilized because it implies that the egg contains no developing life form. You can also rule out the fertilized egg as it is mentioned in the question previously.
Mitosis is when a single cell splits apart and creates two new cells that are identical to the parent cell.