Disgust
Difficult Encounters
Scenarios- Disgust
Scenarios- Difficult Encounters
Miscellaneous
100

This an example of something that can cause disgust in the nursing profession.

What is feces, urine, emesis, foul smells, etc.?

100

These can be asked in discussions to help tap into the patients' broader concerns.

What are open-ended questions?

100

This is matter expelled from the stomach through the mouth.

What is emesis/vomit?

100

A family member just learned that the patient is dying, and this is an emotion that she might be feeling.

What is sad, angry, frustrated, etc.

100

Should nursing care be patient focused or goal focused.

What is patient focused?

200

Injury to skin and underlying tissue resulting from prolonged pressure on the skin.

What is a pressure ulcer or bed sore?

200

A patient or family member might need this after being given difficult/sad information.

What is comfort?

200

This is the red liquid that circulates in the arteries and veins of humans and other vertebrate animals, carrying oxygen to and carbon dioxide from the tissues of the body.

What is blood?

200

This is how you can comfort a patient that just found out that they have a terminal illness and they are hysterically crying.

What is using a calm voice, meet their eye level and use eye contact, let them express their worries and concerns, ask about support systems, etc.

200

This is the quality or state of being conscious or aware of something.

What is Mindfulness?

300

This is a feeling of revulsion or strong disapproval aroused by something unpleasant or offensive

What is Disgust?

300

A nurse should practice mindfulness and not let the patients' behaviors trigger their own emotions during these.

What are difficult encounters?

300

You went to get a patient up to transfer to the chair, and they defecated while standing and it went on the floor and they are embarrassed, this is something you can do to comfort them.

What is not making it a big deal, clean it up discretely, etc

300

This is now a patient might be feeling after waiting to be seen for 4 hours in an ED waiting room.

What is angry?

*other reasonable emotions accepted

300

This is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

What is Empathy?

400

When a nurse experiences something disgusting, they should do this to their face.

What is control?

400
This is a way to make the patient feel in control of their care.

What is making them an active participant in their care?

400

This is something that can cause a patients bowel movements to have a distinct smell that many people have a difficult time dealing with.

What is C.Diff or GI bleeds?

400

You go into a patient's room to perform care and the patient is arguing with their family and causing a big scene, this is something you can do.

What is ask what is going on, try to deescalate the situation, find a way to help and to resolve the conflict.

400

This is having empathy or real concern for patients coupled with a desire to take action to address the patient's need and is sensitivity to the emotional aspects of the suffering of others.

What is Compassion?

500

This is something used in the hospital that a nurse can put under or near their nose to help deal with intense smells.

What is peppermint oil?

500

These are some good ways to help deal with difficult encounters.

What is using a calm voice, listening to concerns, validating feelings, and using empathy?

500

You go into a patient's room to do wound care and the wound is foul smelling and has yellow drainage and the patient is embarrassed and apologizes for the smell, this is something you can do to to make the patient more comfortable.

What is telling them that this does not define them, focus on the patient, show compassion?

500

You go to a patients room to give them their morning meds and they yell and scream at you to get out because they don't want to take them. This is something that you can do.

What is use a calm voice, accept their wishes, be mindful of your own emotions and feelings, and ask them what you can do to help them.

500

This the name of the sweet, amazing, adorable, happy, affectionate, and all around perfect service dog that we are all lucky enough to have in our class.

Who is Bristol?