Author Question: Which truism will the nurse base spousal grief counseling upon? a. Men are less likely to grieve ... (Read 74 times)

OSWALD · **on:** Jul 11, 2018

Which truism will the nurse base spousal grief counseling upon?

a. Men are less likely to grieve the loss of a spouse.
b. Women carry deeper attachments to their spouses than men do.
c. Women are generally more likely to out-live their spouses.
d. The male response to grief has been thor-oughly studied and documented.

Question 2

A woman is terminally ill. Although it has never been discussed in the family or stated outright by her physician, she is growing to believe that she will die because of her illness. Upon which concept will the nurse base therapeutic intervention on?

a. Closed awareness
b. Suspected awareness
c. Mutual pretense
d. Open awareness

GCabra · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 11, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: C
Three out of four women will be widowed at some point because women tend to live longer than men and frequently marry older men. There is no evidence that men grieve less than women; men and women grieve in different manners. It has not been found to be true that women carry at-tachments to their spouses that are less deep than men's attachments. Male response to grief has not been studied as thoroughly as that of women; the abundance of literature on this topic deals with women.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
In suspected awareness, the patient suspects that she is dying; however, it is never openly dis-cussed. With closed awareness, the patient does not know that she is dying; it is kept secret. With mutual pretense, there is a let's pretend atmosphere, where real feelings are kept hidden. Open awareness acknowledges the reality of the approaching death.