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Understanding the Mourner's Bill of Rights

This document discusses anticipatory grief, which is the emotional response experienced before an actual loss occurs. Anticipatory grief encompasses mourning, coping, and planning for impending and future losses. As losses accumulate along an illness trajectory, anticipatory grief processes continue to be triggered, often resulting in an overwhelmed, cumulative effect. Palliative care nurses are uniquely positioned to screen for and treat grief. The document also discusses strategies nurses can use to address a patient's range of emotions after being told their cancer has metastasized and further treatment options are limited.

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Understanding the Mourner's Bill of Rights

This document discusses anticipatory grief, which is the emotional response experienced before an actual loss occurs. Anticipatory grief encompasses mourning, coping, and planning for impending and future losses. As losses accumulate along an illness trajectory, anticipatory grief processes continue to be triggered, often resulting in an overwhelmed, cumulative effect. Palliative care nurses are uniquely positioned to screen for and treat grief. The document also discusses strategies nurses can use to address a patient's range of emotions after being told their cancer has metastasized and further treatment options are limited.

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English Task – Grieving

1. Please fill in the spaces by selecting the correct word from each of the brackets.
Grief is a normal and expected reaction to loss. Anticipatory grief is an emotional response
that is experienced before a true loss. Other terms for this prescient state include prepared
grief or premature grief. This specific subset of grief is an unconscious process that happens
when stability is threaten, most often by a new and unwelcomed diagnosis. Anticipatory
grief encompasses the mourning, cope, and planning of one's life in response to an
impending loss as well as future losses. As losses of identity, function, and potentially lose
of life accumulates along the illness trajectory, Anticipatory grief processes continue to be
triggered; the result is often an overwhelmed, cumulative lost effect. Palliative care nurses
are uniquely positioned to screen and treat the grief.

2. Please explain nurses’ responses to the following patient case study:

Mrs Aminah is a 36-year-old woman with metastatic cervical cancer who has undergone a
chemotherapy, and radiation. She is now re-hospitalized because of complications and
uncontrolled symptoms. She has a husband and 2 children, aged 8 and 5 years. Doctor
discusses a new finding of organ metastasis and the lack of further chemotherapy options
available and then leaves the room. As a nurse, what kind of strategies to address the
potential range of emotions during this interaction? Please explain in 3 paragraphs,
including references!

3. Please fill in the blanks with the right word!

Honest - Denial – Mourning - Genuine - Acceptance – Grief - Depression

a. An individual may withdraw from their daily life activities, and they may feel a fog of
intense sadness is called as denial
b. Life cannot go on as it once did, but through acceptance, life can and will go on.
c. When individuals experienced mourning, they may have a feeling or sense that
everything feels numb.
d. Good nursing care also involves being honest with the patient and family.
e. Being genuine is somewhat related to being oneself, as long as you are not an overly
sarcastic person, which might hinder an effective nurse-patient relationship.
f. Depression is an external expression of grief. It includes rituals that signify someone’s
death, such as funerals, wakes or memorial services.
g. Older adults may take longer to reintegrate the loss and reconcile their grief

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