Category: Research
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Understanding the stage of Active Denial
Nijole Hunter– RN One evening, I was just taking a walk in the nearby park and saw a woman sitting alone on the bench and sobbing. As I approached her, I decided to reach out to her and offer some support. She told me that she had received some bad news from her doctor. She…
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Non-Pharmacological Approaches to Anxiety and Agitation in Hospice Patients
Nijole Hunter RN (Center of Hospice) Those who work in Hospice care will encounter some major spiritual and emotional issues the terminally ill patients experience as death nears and one of the major issues is anxiety. In facing death, people typically experience a wide range of anxieties and related emotions like fear, dread, panic and…
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The Burden of Grief
Saul Ebema, DMin. The natural human response to any loss is to mourn the loss. Mourning a death gives people room to express their feelings associated with the death. Such feelings as, anger, guilt, and abandonment when expressed can lead to healing and restoration. Parkes and Weiss identified “three basic tasks of grief”[1] Emancipation from…
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Spiritual Assessment in Hospice
Lisa Jones, MDiv. The HOPE questions, were developed as a teaching tool to help chaplains begin the process of incorporating a spiritual assessment into the medical interview. These questions have not been validated by research, but the strength of this particular approach is that it allows for an open-ended exploration of an individual’s general spiritual…
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Five Aspects of Crisis Caused by Knowledge of Impeding Death
Dr. Saul Ebema.
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Facing Death Anxiety
Saul Ebema, DMin. Carpenito-Moyet, defines death anxiety as “the state in which an individual experiences apprehension, worry, or fear related to death and dying”[1]. In the Nursing Outcomes Classification guide, death anxiety is defined as “vague uneasy feeling of discomfort or dread generated by perceptions of a real or imagined threat to one’s existence.”[2] Death…
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End of Life Observations on Religion and issues of faith
Andrew Allsop. Some people find their religion a great source of comfort, inspiration, hope and peace in the lead up to death. But this isn’t always the case. Religion may assist them very profoundly in how they view what is happening to them and facing up to the immediacy of the end of their life.…
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