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Terminal illness

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Disease that cannot be cured and will result in death

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Death and dying

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The final stage of growth

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Five stages of dying

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Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance

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Denial

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When a person cannot accept it

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Anger

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When a person is no longer able to deny death

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Bargaining

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Accepts death but wants more time, usually turns to religion

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Depression

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Death is near and will no longer have time with their family

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Acceptance

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Understands and accepts

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Needs

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Lower need should be met before higher needs

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Safety

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Needs to be free of anxiety or fear

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Sexuality

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Ability to give and receive love

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Affection

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A warm and tender feeling for another person

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Esteem

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Feeling important and worthwhile. Show respect, approval, and appreciation

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Self actualization

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Have obtained their full potential

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Meeting needs

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Motivated, satisfaction , tension or frustration

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Satisfying human needs

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Direct methods, hard work, realistic goals, situation evaluation, cooperation w/ others

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Indirect methods

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Defense mechanism

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Rationalization

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Using a reasonable excuse or acceptable explanation for behavior or avoid the real person

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Projection

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Placing the blame on your own action on someone else

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Five major food groups

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Grains, vegetable, fruits, milk, meats and beans

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Displacement

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Transferring feelings about one person to someone else

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Compensation

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Substitution of one goal to another to achieve success

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Daydreaming

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This is a dreamlike thought process that occur when a person is awake

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Repression

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Involves the transfer of unacceptable or painful ideas, feelings, and thoughts into the unconscious mind

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Suppression

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Similar to repression, but the individual is aware of the unacceptable feeling or thought refuses to deal w/ them

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Denial

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Disbelief of an event or idea is too frightening or shocked for a person to cope with

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Withdrawal

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Individuals can either cease to communicate or remove themselves physically from a situation

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Essential nutrition

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Chemical found in food as you use the chemical food replenishes it

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Vitamin A

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Healthy eyes

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Vitamin D

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Regulates calcium and phosphorous absorption and metabolism

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Vitamin E

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Necessary for protection of cells and epithelial cells

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Vitamin K

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Normal clotting of blood

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Therapeutic diets

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Modifications to the normal diet and are used to improve specific health conditions usually for anorexia patients

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Liquid diets

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Clear or all liquid diet only used for short periods of time

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Diabetic diet

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Usually for patients w/ diabetes mellitus

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Sodium restricted diets-

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Or low sodium diets frequently used for diabetic patients

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Bland diet

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Does not irritate the digestive track

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Care that allows patient to die with dignity and comfort

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Hospice

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Needs required to sustain life

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Physiological

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Measurable physical changes that occurs throughout an individuals life

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Growth

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Indirect method. Used to deal with needs

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Defense mechanisms

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Uncomfortable inner sensation or feeling

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Tension

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Psychological condition I which person alternates binges and the fasts

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Bulimia

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Feeling of pleasure or fulfillment

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Satifaction

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