SPIRITUAL HEALTH
This term describes a personal belief system that gives life meaning, purpose, and connection.
What is spirituality?
This type of grief occurs before an actual loss, often when a person expects the death of a loved one.
What is anticipatory grief?
This theorist described the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
Who is Kübler-Ross?
This term refers to the body’s response to any demand placed upon it.
What is stress?
This metabolic state increases energy needs due to injury, trauma, or infection.
What is metabolic stress?
Nurses often support spiritual needs by offering this hospital-based service.
What is a chaplain/referral to pastoral care?
This type of loss occurs when a person can no longer feel, hear, see, or know a person or object.
What is actual loss?
This model focuses on four tasks of mourning, including accepting reality and working through pain.
What is Worden’s Grief Tasks Model?
This mechanism helps a person deal with stress and can be problem-focused or emotion-focused.
What are coping strategies?
This process breaks down muscle during severe stress to provide amino acids for healing.
What is catabolism?
This term describes a disturbance in a person’s belief system that may occur during illness or crisis.
What is spiritual distress?
This kind of loss is uniquely experienced internally and is less obvious to others.
What is perceived loss?
This theory states that grief involves oscillating between loss-oriented and restoration-oriented activities.
What is the Dual Process Model?
This reaction includes increased HR, BP, and glucose—activated by the sympathetic nervous system.
What is the fight-or-flight response?
This stress response hormone promotes gluconeogenesis and increases blood glucose.
What is cortisol?
This spiritual concept reflects a person’s belief in something or someone greater than themselves and often guides how they interpret illness and healing.
What is faith?
This loss involves a change in the familiar, such as moving, job change, or hospitalization.
What is situational loss?
This theory emphasizes maintaining ongoing bonds with the deceased rather than detaching.
What is the Continuing Bonds Theory?
The continual wear-and-tear on the body caused by chronic stress is known by this term.
What is allostatic load?
Burns, sepsis, and trauma can cause this hypermetabolic condition requiring 25–35 kcal/kg/day.
What is the hypermetabolic response?
This spiritual attribute gives patients motivation, a sense of future, and the expectation that a positive outcome is possible—even during illness or suffering.
What is hope?
This loss occurs when a person is physically present but psychologically unavailable, such as in dementia.
What is ambiguous loss?
This framework describes how people reconstruct meaning in the aftermath of loss.
What is the Meaning Reconstruction Theory?
This term describes the ability to recover, adapt, and grow stronger after stress, often supported by protective factors such as social support and optimism.
What is resilience?
his antioxidant vitamin supports collagen formation and wound healing.
What is vitamin C?