Death and Dying Part 2

Question 1

Experiences, culture, religion, and age influences attitudes about death, attitudes about death often change as a person grows older and with changing circumstances

Answer 1

Attitudes about death

Question 2

Practices and attitudes about death differ among cultures, attitudes about death are closely related to religion, reincarnation is the belief that the spirit or soul is reborn in another human body or in another form of life, may religions practice rites and rituals during the dying process and at the same time of death, age affects a person’s attitudes and feelings about death

Answer 2

Culture and Religion

Question 3

Dying people have psychological, social, and spiritual needs, you need to listen and use touch, some people may want to see a spiritual leader or take part in religious practices, you need to provide privacy during prayer and spiritual moments, be courteous to the spiritual leader, and handle religious objects with care and respect

Answer 3

Psychological, social, and spiritual needs

Question 4

Dying may take a few minutes, hours, days or weeks, to the extent possible, independence is allowed. Every effort is made to promote physical and psychological comfort, vison, hearing, and speech (vision blurs and gradually fails, hearing is one of the last functions lost, speech becomes difficult

Answer 4

Physical needs

Question 5

The person’s room should be comfortable, pleasant, well lit, and well ventilated, unnecessary equipment is removed, equipment upsetting to look at is kept out of the person’s sight, if possible, the person and family arrange the room as they wish

Answer 5

The person’s room

Question 6

This is a hard time for the family, the family usually is allowed to stay as long as they wish, you must respect the right to privacy, you cannot neglect care because the family is present, the family goes through stages like the dying person, they need support, understanding, courtesy, and respect, a spiritual leader may provide comfort

Answer 6

The family

Question 7

The patient self-determination ACT and OBRA, give persons the right to accept or refuse medical treatment, give the right to make advance directives, living wills, durable power of attorney for healthcare, “do not resuscitate orders

Answer 7

Legal issues

Question 8

Postmortem care begins when the doctor pronounces the person dead, is done to maintain a good appearance of the body, the right to privacy and the right to be treated with dignity and respect apply after death, within 2 to 4 hours after death, rigor mortis develops

Answer 8

Care of the body after death

Question 9

Quality of life is important to dying people and their families, a person has the right to die in peace and with dignity

Answer 9

Quality of life