Grief Stages
The 5 stages of grief in Kubler-Ross model
What are Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance?
The nurse can offer this type of support to help families and patients navigate grief.
What is emotional support?
Describes how an individual deals with problems and issues. It is the behavioral and cognitive efforts of an individual to manage stress.
What is coping?
The purposeful use of communication to build and maintain helping relationships with clients, families, and significant others.
What is therapeutic communication?
It involves the delivery of care that transcends cultural boundaries and considers a client’s cultural beliefs as they affect health, illness, and lifestyle.
What is culturally responsive care?
Stage with feelings of confusion and a refusal to accept the reality of a loss.
What is denial?
It involves listening to a patient’s or family member’s concerns without judgment.
What is active listening?
Three (3) Stages describing the stress response.
What are alarm stage, resistance stage and exhaustion stage?
This communication can often have a greater effect on a message than the words do.
What is non-verbal communication?
These care interventions focus on the relief of physical manifestations (pain) as well as addressing spiritual, emotional, and psychosocial aspects of the client’s life.
What is palliative care?
This stage involves a sense of frustration and feelings of helplessness directed at the situation or others.
What is anger?
A nurse might recommend this type of professional to help a family member process their grief.
Who is a counselor or therapist?
These positive coping strategies can reduce stress and enhance overall well-being.
What are meditation, mindfulness, deep breathing, physical activity, journaling?
If appropriate, can communicate caring and provide comfort.
What is touch?
Comprehensive care for the client and the client’s family is implemented when a client is not expected to live longer than 6 months. Medical care aimed toward a cure is stopped, and the focus becomes enhancing quality of life and supporting the client toward a peaceful and dignified death.
What is hospice care?
In this stage, individuals often try to make deals with a higher power, attempting to delay the inevitable.
What is bargaining?
The nurse’s role involves balancing both emotional support and this to maintain professional boundaries.
What is self care?
Unhealthy coping mechanisms involve behaviors that provide short-term relief but may exacerbate distress in the long run.
What are substance abuse, avoidance, self-harm, overeating, undereating, isolation, avoidance, and negative self-talk
Ineffective communication techniques.
What are judging, arguing, giving advice, minimizing feelings, being defensive?
The method for client instructions to determine the clarity of the nurse to client communication
What is the teach-back method?
This stage is when individuals begin to come to terms with their loss and make peace with it.
What is acceptance?
This approach involves validating patients and families feelings without necessarily offering solutions right away.
What is empathetic listening?
How one values oneself.
What is self-concept?
Faulty communication among the members of the health care team can have a negative effect on the work environment and on clients’ outcomes.
What are incivility, bullying?
Differences in health status in one population when compared to another population.
What are health disparities?