In: Nursing
1.Mary jo is in her grief process .There are 5 main stages for grief and mourning which are universal are experianced by the people who go throughloss of something or someone.According to her current approach to the life it ssems to be she is in her depression stage of grief where she withdraw from others ,less interest in everything etc indicate a early or occured sign of depression which need to be taken care.5 stages of grief are : 1.Denial,2.Anger,3.Bargaining,4.Depression,5.Acceptance.
2. A hospice may help Mary jo to some extend by giving good support and watchout for anyneed of medical attention.A hospice can help her by listening to her saying and give them time to explain how it feel to them.Giving them a company will take them back to life easily by trying to deviate their attention to other side, a hospice can give her a ray of hope in life and encourage her to do daily activities so on .
Prior to Jim's death the role of hospice it different from now , she should help them to go through anticipated grief which is even more difficult task.Being alive and anticipating death is a dreadful state of life for the person and their loved ones to go through.The hospice would have been helping them with their emotions and mourning and also the inner conflict towards life.In such cases the grief process starts before death where a hospice should support the entire family to go on with the situation.
3.As a health care professional we could expect things in more reality such as she may refuse to interact with us, show refusal to share emotions and concern, less interest towards all, giving more excuse to stop being with her,try to isolate herself from us,not ready listen to us etc.
THINGS WHICH A HEALTHCARE MEMBER TO DO