click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
NUR 102-chpt 49
Loss & Greiving
Question | Answer |
---|---|
Grief | characteristic pattern of psychololgical and physiologic responses one experiences after the loss of a significant person, object, belief, or relationship. Encompasses the entire range of physical, psychological, cognitive, behavioral responses to a loss |
Loss | experience of parting with an object, person, belief, or relationship one values. |
anticipatory grieving | pattern of psychological and physiologic responses to an impending loss |
bereavement | state of desolation due to loss. persons total response to a loss including emotional, physical, social, cognitive responses. |
What are Kubler-Ross' stages of dying? | denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance |
Name some things to consider when determining nursing interventions that are designed to help families or caregivers who are grieving. | maintain a caring presence consider the developmental stage they are in understand factors that influence grieving process |
At about what age do children start to understand death as being irreversible, universal, inevitable, and natural? | 9 |
dysfunctional grief | grief that falls outside the normal response range and may be exaggerated or prolonged or absent |