Question

Analyze the roles of health professionals for delivering health care.

1. Present your thesis statement based on your research using a full sentence.  

2. Using a proper outline format, discuss 2 primary topics/issues based on supported content from your research. Single words/short phrases are not enough description; use full sentences.

3. Present journal references

Answer 1

1. Thesis statement: Professional Coherence: Its role and importance in healthcare

2.

The contributions of individual health professionals to the bereaved depend on the organizational and healthcare setting in which they work; the religious, psychosocial, and cultural characteristics of the patient; the individual characteristics, interest, competence, accessibility, and availability of the professional; and the nature of his or her relationship with the patient. Although the exact nature of the assistance given following death varies, several professional tasks following bereavement can be identified:

• information and education, with sensitivity to what people seem to want to know

• emotional support

• clinical recognition of abnormal bereavement reactions

• management and appropriate referral to mental health resources

• legitimization of the occurrence of death, so that the bereaved are assured that all therapeutically appropriate measures

3. Journal references:

• Institute of Medicine (US) Committee for the Study of Health Consequences of the Stress of Bereavement; Osterweis M, Solomon F, Green M, editors.
• Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 1984.
• Lohmann, R. Dying, and the social responsibility of institutions. Social Casework 58: 538-545, 1977.
• Macon, L.B. Help for bereaved parents. Social Casework: The Journal of Contemporary Social Work 60: 558-565, 1979.
• Mullaney, J., and Fox, R. Clinical nurse specialist and social worker. In: Rehabilitation Services and the Social Work Role: Challenge for Change (Browne, J., editor; , Kirlin, B., editor; , and Watt, F., editor. , eds.). Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1981.