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Loss and Grieving
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Goal Summary:
Students will gain the overall basic knowledge needed to care for patients who are experiencing loss and grieving, using the nursing process to identify, describe, and prioritize information related to loss and grieving. They will learn prevention strategies that address the needs of adult med-surg patients who are experiencing loss and grieving. They will also learn teaching strategies and communication techniques to use when caring for the adult med-surg patient who are experiencing loss and grieving.
Essential Questions:
1. What are the components of a peaceful death?
2. How can nurses help someone cope with complicated grief? What is the importance of reminiscence in grief and mourning?
3. Discuss how socioeconomic status influences a person’s ability to access support and resources for coping with loss and physical responses to stress.
4. What are some nursing assessment questions for loss, death, and grieving?
5. Discuss teaching strategies that encourage a patient to participate in activities to manage symptoms and prepare for death.
6. Discuss how symptom management and promotion of dignity and self-esteem allow patients to focus on psychological and spiritual issues.
7. Discussion Topic: How can nurses facilitate grieving?
8. Discuss the physical process of dying and ways to promote physical, psychological, and spiritual comfort in a dying patient.
9. Review elements of advance directives.
10. Review postmortem care and appropriate nursing interventions
Content Goals:
1. Explain the nursing knowledge necessary for care that addresses the needs of adult med-surg patients who are experiencing loss and grieving.
2. Describe assessment techniques to identify factors that affect adult med-surg patients who are experiencing loss and grieving.
3. Explain how to use the nursing process as a clinical decision-making strategy for providing care of adult med-surg patients who are experiencing loss and grieving.
4. Describe and prioritize caring nursing interventions that address the needs of adult med-surg patients who are experiencing loss and grieving.
5. Describe prevention strategies used in caring for adult med-surg patients who are experiencing loss and grieving.
6. Practice communication techniques, including information technologies, in caring for adult med-surg patients who are experiencing loss and grieving.
7. Identify teaching strategies for health instruction of adult med-surg patients who are experiencing loss and grieving.
8. Identify professional nursing behaviors in the clinical setting applicable to the care of adult med-surg patients experiencing loss and grieving.
Meets Course Outcomes: 1 - 8

1. Explain the knowledge necessary for care that addresses the spiritual needs of adult med-surg patients.
2. Describe factors that affect the spiritual needs in adult med-surg patients.
3. Explain how to use the nursing process as a clinical decision-making strategy for providing care that addresses the spiritual needs of adult med-surg patients.
4. Identify teaching strategies for health instruction that address the spiritual needs of adult med-surg patients.
5. Identify professional nursing behaviors in the clinical setting applicable to the care of adult med-surg patients with spirituality needs.

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