Chapter 36 Loss and Grief Flashcards
Actual Loss
Occurs when a person can no longer feel, see, hear, or know a person or object.
Examples: loss of body part, loss of family member, loss of job
Ambiguous Loss
Loss where the person lost is physically present but psychologically unavailable.
Example: dementia, brain injury, kidnapping
Anticipatory Grief
Grief that occurs before the actual loss or death occurs
Examples: Caring for patient diagnosed with dementia, ALS, terminal illnesses.
Bereavement
The time of sadness after a person experiences a significant loss through death
Complicated Grief
People that have prolonged or significantly difficult time moving forward after a loss. They can have trouble accepting the death, trusting others, feel bitter, emotionally numb, sorrowful for more than a year.
Disenfranchised Grief
Grief when grief can’t be properly shared openly and does not fit the norms.
Examples: death of former spouse, suicide, homicide, abortion
Grief
Individualized response to a loss that is perceives, real, or anticipated by the person experiencing it.
Hospice
Model of care that focuses on care, comfort, and quality of life on a person with a serious illness who is approaching the end of life.
Maturational Loss
Loss from going through life with normal developmental process.
Example: stay at home mom experiencing child going to school for first time. Widowed parents only child getting married
Mourning
The period of coping with grief.
Necessary Loss
Losses that are replaced by something different or better, natural and positive part of life.
Examples: child leaves home to go to college, leaving behind family and friends to go on and make new friends and begin a career.
Normal (Uncomplicated Grief)
Common and universal reaction characterized by complex emotional, cognitive, social, spiritual responses to loss and death.
Examples: disbelief, yearning, anger, and depression
Palliative Care
Focuses on the prevention, relief, reduction, or soothing of symptoms through the course of illness.
Perceived Loss
Loss by the grieving person and often less obvious to others. The loss is very real to the griever.
Examples: 4.0 students attending nursing school and receiving a much lower letter grade than they are used to, due to grading scale. Or a child feeling less loved by her parents and experiences a loss of self esteem
Situational Loss
Loss that is sudden and unpredictable.
Example: A person in a car accident is injured with permanent physical changes that makes it impossible to return to work leading to loss of income, goals, and self-esteem. Another example could be divorce leading to loss of spouse and financial stability
