Question

Caring in the Last Days and Hours 

Understanding Your Beliefs and Baggage

 1. Reflect on and write about your feelings regarding caring for someone in their last days and hours a at the time of death Compare this reflection to the feelings you identified, in exercise 3 in chapter 1 this workbook, about working with people who are dying Your feelings today may be similar to those you identified before or may have changed.

 2. PSWs often provide care for a person's body after death has occurred. For some people this is a sacred ritual others are not comfortable doing this. Reflect on how you feel about caring for the body after death If you feel uncomfortable consider asking a colleague of supervisor to mentor you and help you become more comfortable. You may want to ask for additional opportunities at work to gain experience providing this kind of care Reflect on and write about caring for the body after death.

Integrating into Practice Complete the exercise below to learn about your personal responses to loss. 

Multiple Losses Exercise 

On each of six pieces of paper, write down one activity that you enjoy (writing lightly with the pencil will decrease the chance of the writing being legible from the reverse side of the paper when it is turned over). Lay the papers writing side down on the table in front of you. Shuffle them around such that you no longer know which is which Line them up in a row. 

Turn over the middle two pieces of paper and imagine that because of declining health you are no longer able to do these activities. What is your immediate response to having these two activities removed from your life? What do you feel? What do you think? 

Resist the urge to change an activity that you lost to a different one. This exercise is designed to help you imagine the multiple losses that dying people experience. 

Now imagine it is two weeks later and the doctor tells you that you should no longer do two more on the activities. What do you feel about these new losses? Do you feel better knowing that you still have two activities left? 

Now imagine that you wake one morning a month later and are unable to do the remaining two activities. What do you feel? What do you want to do or say? 

Discuss your experience with a colleague.

Answer 1

1.while caring person who are going to die. The nurse should help him or her to alleviate suffering as much as possible .while respecting the wishes of dying person. And provide him a peaceful death. Meet the needs especially rituals.all kind of support should give to that person especially he need care in four areas such as physical, mental, spiritual and emotional . The nurse has feelings. But she know the etiquette of nursing and caring a patient who are going to die. In some situations it will vary.But while meeting the four level of needs she will giving a peaceful death to that patient.

2.while caring of the body after death the nurse should follow protocol of nursing first of all respect the dead body. In all manners.

Washing and dressing of the body is an act of intimacy and sign of respect.

Before getting rigor Mortis body should made clean and tie .

3.immediate loss of some activities caliber make us so depressed and shows angering greater extent. It will definitely affect our physical, mentaly.

4.immediate loss of activities affect our entirely especially the persons emotions are varied. Later they will cope up with that.

5. It will not affect the person that much seriously because time duration or gap is longer.