Question

What challenges do you think you would face in accompanying a patient that was dying?

What resources might you be able to offer a dying patient?

Answer 1

Ans) Physical challenge: Satisfy Bodily needs, reduce stress.

Psychology: Feel secure in control

Social: Keep attachments to individuals, groups, and causes

Spiritual: meaning, connection, transcendence, and hope

- The patient's own reality is at the heart of another alternative theory.
The emphasis shifts from the observer's frame of reference, away from stage or developmental tasks that an outsider might find useful.
The challenge is to learn how dying people interpret their own situation.
In this view, there may be as many theoretical models of dying as there are dying people.

Spiritual well-being has achieved recognition as a goal of end-of-life care.
Level of staff training varies across settings of care.
There is a need to heighten awareness of ethical questions.
Current end-of-life care is often fragmented.
Enhanced communication among patients, families, and care providers is crucial to high-quality end-of-life care.

A useful way to think about the grief process is using the acronym TEAR. Grief helps us...

T= To face and accept the reality of the change and loss,

E= Experience and work through the emotional hurt this brings,

A= Adjust to life being different, without things being as we wanted them to be,

R= Reinvest in the new situation and find ways to live well in it.

Adjusting doesn’t mean we’ve finished grieving and that’s that. While we might accept our situation and move forward to build positive, good lives, our loss may still bring us sadness at times. This is normal.

- Your grief process is about assisting you to adjust to all the changes in your life, by helping you come to terms with it physically, mentally, spiritually, socially, and of course emotionally. Gradually, bit by bit, you can build your life out around your loss, in healthy and positive ways. And what you have learned can help you as you move ahead, and may even help others facing loss, that you meet along the way.