A patient died from suspicious circumstances. What should the ...

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A patient died from suspicious circumstances. What should the nurse do next?
 
  a. Notify the coroner.
  b. Notify the newspaper.
  c. Chart what the nurse thinks happened.
  d. Chart opinions from the health care staff.

Question 2

A widow, whose spouse died 3 years ago, has recently started dating and is thinking about going back to school to complete a degree she had started at an earlier age. Which of Bowlby's phases of mourning best describes this behavior?
 
  a. Numbing
  b. Yearning and searching
  c. Disorganization and despair
  d. Reorganization

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Answer to Question 1

A
State statutes specify that, when there are reasonable grounds to believe that a patient died as a result of violence, homicide, suicide, accident, or death occurring in any unusual or suspicious manner, you need to notify the coroner. Notifying the newspaper would break confidentiality. Charting must be objective and factual, not what the nurse thinks happened or opinions.

Answer to Question 2

D
During the final phase of reorganization, which usually requires a year or more, the person accepts unaccustomed roles, acquires new skills, and builds new relationships. In the numbing phase, a person has periods of extremely intense emotion and reports feeling stunned or unreal. The numbing phase lasts from several hours to a week. The yearning and searching phase evokes emotional outbursts, tearful sobbing, and acute distress. To move forward, people need to experience this painful phase of grief. During the phase of disorganization and despair an individual spends much time thinking about how and why the loss occurred. The person often expresses anger at anyone he or she believes to be responsible. Gradually this phase gives way to an acceptance that the loss is permanent.