Emotional response to a loss, which is unique to the individual
Bereavement
Outward social expression of grief and the behavior associated with the loss that can be culturally influenced
Mourning
Can no longer feel, hear, or know a person or object
Actual loss
Why do nurses still needed to administer drugs to those patients in their terminal stage?
Because drugs can help ease the sign and symptoms of a patient’s illness.
Dysfunctional; the grieving person has a prolonged or significant time moving forward after a loss
Complicated grief
Form of necessary loss, including all normally expected life changes across the life span.
Maturational loss
Person is unaware of disruptive behaviors as a result of a loss
Masked Grief
In your own words, what is living will?
A person’s instructions/ preferences about future medical treatments, particularly EOL care, in the event the person loses the capacity to make HC decisions
What should you do with a deceased patient's belongings?
Give them to a family member and document who you gave them to and what you gave them
Complex emotional, cognitive, social, physical, behavioral, and spiritual responses responses to loss and death
Normal Grief
What official document must be signed and given the family after death?
The death certificate
Health care treatment, including interdisciplinary end-of-life care, and
consultation with patients and family members, to prevent or relieve
pain and suffering - this is called...
Palliative Care
Suppressing or postponing normal grief response
Delayed grief
In your own words, define "death with dignity".
End of life option-ability to meet death on one's own terms-choosing death over suffering-to die peacefully and gracefully
Marginal or unsupported grief; the relationship may not be socially sanctioned.
Disenfranchised grief
How should you position a patient for viewing by the family?
Supine with a pillow under the head
T/F:The nurse should recognize when death is near and not to tell that information to families.
FALSE
5 stages of dying Kubler-Ross
Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance
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