2 - Strategies to Stay Healthy

Question 1

5 Ways to sustain oneself (root - GGRBL)

Answer 1

Giving and receiving
Grieving
Replenishing yourself
Being open and clear
Letting go of agendas

Question 2

If a nurse views themselves as always giving rather than a balance between giving and receiving?

Answer 2

Dissatisfaction results

Question 3

Many nurses relate that working with dying patients helps them:

Answer 3

Live & enjoy each moment

Question 4

When working with dying individuals it is necessary to let go of:

Answer 4

Predetermined plans and idealistic hopes

Question 5

When nurses stop dictating how pt should live & die, it then:

Answer 5

Frees the patient to make their own choices

Question 6

Inability to grieve leads to:

Answer 6

Burnout

Inability to meet dying person & own needs

Question 7

T/F Dying patients are attuned to insincerity and false words.

Answer 7

TRUE

Question 8

Patients want _______ not ______.

Answer 8

Presence

Pretending

Question 9

Self-awareness is a…

Answer 9

Life-long challenge

Question 10

Reviewing family history and life experiences that have influenced emotions and coping strategies is one way to:

Answer 10

Come to term with own issues

Question 11

We are a ____ _______ culture

Answer 11

Death Denying

Question 12

T/F Acknowledging our own repressed feelings of death will help lower defenses and break down boundaries maintained in fear.

Answer 12

TRUE

Question 13

This is the basis for building a strong foundation for caring.

Answer 13

Self-Awareness

Question 14

We must choose to purposely enter the world of a suffering person:

Answer 14

Far enough to understand, but maintain enough detachment to provide practical care-giving and retain own emotional health.

Question 15

Diminishing empathy and increasing emotional stress are two products of:

Answer 15

Compassion fatigue

Question 16

When faced with compassion fatigue?

Answer 16

Stop
Self-reflect
Self-care

Question 17

2 Stressors in end-of-life care:

Answer 17

1- Stress from work w/ patients & families

2- Stress from within the work environment

Question 18

Stress can lead to “_______ __________” with coworkers and family members. AEB Hostility & Defensiveness

Answer 18

Horizontal Violence

Question 19

Stress causes symptoms that affect our (4)

Answer 19

Bodies
Spiritual
Emotional
Professional behaviour

Question 20

Physical symptoms of stress?

Answer 20

Headache
GI
Weight/Apetite
Substance abuse
Sleep disturbances,
SOP/Palpitations

Question 21

Spiritual effects of stress? CHA

Answer 21

Cynicism
Hopelessness
Apathy

Question 22

Emotional effects of stress?

Answer 22

Anxiety, Anger
Sadness, Depression, Guilt
Frustration & Powerlessness

Question 23

Empowered nurses see themselves as participants in..

Answer 23

Shaping their own destinies

Question 24

Any agency strategy that fosters healthy grieving will also foster..

Answer 24

Staff Health

Question 25

T/F Joy & sorrow should be shared in simple ways among staff.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Promoting a healthy work environment starts with 4 steps: HORD

Answer 26

Help eachother
Don’t gossip
Offer + solutions
Reject the role of angry martyr

Question 27

Maslows Hierarchy applied to sustaining ourselves?

Bottom BNPMHS Top

Answer 27

Breathing
Nutrition
Physical Exercise
Mind Exercise
Human Community
Spirit Exercise