Grief & Loss Flashcards
Actual loss
Job family member
Perceived
Feeling
Pshycial
Injuries, Organ removal
External loss
Materialized
Grief
How you deal w loss
Palliative care
Holistic comfort care. Treat symptoms
Hospice care
Making comfortable
Stage one of dying
Sleeping a lot not wanting to eat 1-3 months
Last thing to go and die
Hearing
Euthanasia
Deliberately ending life “good death”
Stage of dying 1to2weeks
Physical changes, body
Days stages of dying
Surge of energy
Hours before dying
Restless
Meet physiological needs
Mobility, oxygenation, safety, nutrition, fluids, elimination, hygiene, control pain
Meeting psychological needs
Getting affairs in order, come to terms with life/death 
Significant loss
 The meaning the person has to u
Support system
People with strong, emotional and physical support typically have less complicated grief
Anticipatory grief
Grieving before death
Anticipating death
Organ Donation rules
-Next of kin can donate organs unless patient disagree
-Relative cannot revoke a patient’s donation
-At any time, a person can amend or revoke their donation
Therapeutic communication
Active listening
Eye contact
Self-awareness
Continue to communicate
Psychological loss
Sexuality, control. Getting AID
Environmental loss
Changes in the familiar (moving to a new home)
Disenfranchised grief
Social isolation
