Author Question: The nurse has determined that a parent is experiencing chronic sorrow following the diagnosis of her ... (Read 65 times)

acc299 · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

The nurse has determined that a parent is experiencing chronic sorrow following the diagnosis of her child with cerebral palsy. What is an appropriate response for the nurse?

1. Suggest the possibility of residential care.
2. Provide information about support services and groups.
3. Caution the parent not to neglect the other children in the family.
4. Suggest that the parent work to disengage from the emotional intensity of the experience.

Question 2

A patient tells the mental health nurse that he is unable to get his life back together since the death of his spouse two years ago and that he feels the loss as strongly as he did the day his spouse died.

What does the nurse suspect the patient is experiencing?
1. Delayed grief
2. Anticipatory grief
3. Complicated grief
4. Disenfranchised grief

carojassy25 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Answer: 2
Explanation: Nurses can encourage hope in parents experiencing chronic sorrow by keeping them informed and by offering information about support groups and counseling. Suggesting disengagement does not help resolve the parent's ongoing sorrow. Being critical or offering parenting advice will not engage the parent with the nurse. Unsolicited suggestions do not provide appropriate support.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: 3
Explanation: Complicated grief may be suspected when the intensity of suffering does not diminish over time, the patient does not resume previous roles, or the grief seems out of proportion to the loss. With delayed grief, the individual seems to feel no grief for a period of weeks, months, or even years. In anticipatory grief, an individual expects the loss before it occurs. Disenfranchised grief occurs when individuals hide grief following a loss to which some sort of stigma is, or may be, attached.