Stages of Infection
Manifestations of the specific infectious disease process are obvious and may become severe.
What is acute illness?
Reality sets in. Deep emotions here. Sometimes wonders of worth continuing in life alone.
What is depression?
Members share a common social and cultural heritage
What is ethnicity?
Grief lasting longer than 6 months and can affect one’s ability to function.
What is prolonged grief disorder?
Wound healing that happens when the wound is left open to heal
What is secondary healing?
An infection enters host and begins to multiply.
What is incubation?
Trying to adjust to the loss. Questions why? And the “Its not fair”. Releases emotional discomfort. Blaming of others for the loss may occur.
What is anger?
An outsider's viewpoint of a culture
What is ETIC?
Physical, psychological, and spiritual responses to a loss
What is grief? (actual loss, normal grief)
Layer that insulates the body, absorbs shock, and pads the internal organs and structures
What is subcutaneous?
The client returns to a normal or a “new normal” state of health.
What is convalescence?
Still feels pain, but all will be well in times ahead. Acknowledges the new reality.
What is acceptance?
Religion that does not celebrate birthdays, refuse blood transfusions
What is Jehovah"s Witness?
Term for mourning and adjustment time following a loss
What is bereavement?
Largest organ of the body, 15% of body weight
What is skin?
The client begins having symptoms.
What is prodromal?
Tries to relieve or minimize the pain. Avoids grief through negotiating
What is bargaining?
Nursing pioneer who published on culturally competent care, Sunrise Enabler
Who was Madeline Leininger?
Grief related to a relationship that doesn’t coincide with what is considered by society to be a justified loss. Loss of a pet.
What is disenfranchized loss?
Full-thickness skin and tissue loss
What is Stage 4?
Manifestations begin to wane as the degree of infectious disease decreases.
What is decline?
Individual refuses to accept reality. May be numb or in shock. May question how to move on through life without the loved one.
What is denial?
Homeless, poor, elderly, mentally ill
What are vulnerable populations?
Grief experienced before the loss of someone or something.
What is anticipatory grief?
Localized damage to the skin and/or underlying tissue, most often over bony prominences
What is pressure injury?