This is the lowest level of Maslow’s hierarchy and includes oxygen, food, and water.
What are physiological needs?
Care for anyone with an illness in its final stages, when a doctor determines they have less than 6 months to live.
What is hospice care?
This refers to a person’s belief in a higher power.
What is spirituality?
This is the body’s immediate reaction to stress (fight or flight).
What is the alarm stage?
This type of grief occurs before an actual loss happens.
What is anticipatory grief?
This level includes safety, stability, and protection.
What are safety needs?
Care for anyone with a serious, long-term illness, regardless of the stage
What is palliative care?
This term describes shared beliefs, values, and practices of a group.
What is culture?
This stage occurs when the body attempts to cope with stress long-term.
What is the resistance stage?
This type of grief is prolonged and interferes with functioning.
What is complicated grief?
This level includes relationships, love, and belonging.
What are love and belonging needs?
This charting error includes leaving blank spaces or late entries without notation.
What is improper documentation?
This term refers to respecting and understanding different cultural beliefs in care.
What is cultural competence?
Name one stage of grief according to Kübler-Ross.
What is denial, anger, bargaining, depression, or acceptance?
This is a normal emotional response to loss.
What is grief?
This highest level focuses on achieving one’s full potential.
What is self-actualization?
This must be included when correcting a charting error.
What are date, time, and initials with a single line through the error?
This refers to awareness of one’s own cultural biases.
What is cultural awareness?
This term describes the body’s ability to maintain balance.
What is homeostasis?
To refuse the loss has occurred.
What is Denial?
A patient in pain should have this need addressed before psychosocial concerns.
What are physiological needs?
Positive or negative strategies to reduce stress?
What is coping mechanisms?
This refers to cultural identity.
What is ethnicity?
This is the general term for how the body responds to stress over time.
What is General Adaptation Syndrome?
To postpone the reality of the loss.
What is bargaining?