NR 226 Exam 3 – Nursing Leadership & Management Practice Questions and
Study Guide
nursing knowledge base - correct answer ✔✔requires knowledge, brings comfort, makes plans
to care for patients loss, grief, and death, guides the grief process, explains patho of related
illness, knows cultural perspectives on meaning of loss/death, social support, concepts of
caring, concepts of stress and coping
experience of loss, grief and death - correct answer ✔✔person revolves around grief, loss,
knowledge, and death
death - correct answer ✔✔ultimate loss, last developmental task for individual, considered the
ultimate loss, competes the life cycle
types of death - correct answer ✔✔natural, expected, sudden, unexpected and suicide
grief - correct answer ✔✔emotional response to loss, manifested in ways unique to an
individual based on personal experience, cultural expectations and spiritual belief, subjective
response of emotional pain to loss, reacting and responding to the losses in one's life, a natural
and needed reaction to loss, may begin before loss or death occurs
loss examples - correct answer ✔✔losing body parts or function, illness, self-esteem, friendship,
childhood friends, identity, confidence, job or income that is grieved throughout the process of
life
loss - correct answer ✔✔an actual or potential situation in which something that is valued is
changed or no longer available
necessary loss - correct answer ✔✔people learn to live through this loss, eventually replaced
with something different or better
,maturational loss - correct answer ✔✔ending a life span with normally expected life or adult
children leaving the house
situational loss - correct answer ✔✔sudden unpredictable death, automobile accidents leaving
permanent damages in the body leading unable to achieve life goals
actual loss - correct answer ✔✔occurs when a person can no longer feel, see, hear, or know a
person or object like loss of body part, death, losing a job
perceived loss - correct answer ✔✔easy to overlook because internal, uniquely defined by the
person experiencing the loss and is less obvious to other people like rejection from a friend,
rejected by a group that affects our confidence
anticipated loss - correct answer ✔✔having a sense of full extent may not known
bereavement - correct answer ✔✔common depressed reaction to the death of a loved one,
associated with a time of intense personal suffering/sorrow over the loss like emotional and
outward behavior
mourning - correct answer ✔✔reaction activated by a person to assist in overcoming a great
personal loss, include socially/culturally prescribed practices, sometimes it is common to feel an
increase grief on the death anniversary or birthdays
ultimate loss - correct answer ✔✔death
types of loss - correct answer ✔✔maturational loss, situational loss, personal loss, death
, kubler-ross's stages of dying - correct answer ✔✔denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and
acceptance
grief and grieving - correct answer ✔✔the subjective response of emotional pain to loss,
reacting and responding to the losses in one's life, a natural and needed reaction to loss, may
begin before loss or death occurs
types of grief - correct answer ✔✔normal, anticipatory, disenfranchised and complicated grief
normal grief - correct answer ✔✔is a complex response emotional, cognitive, social, behavioral
and spiritual components
anticipatory grief - correct answer ✔✔type of grief is to expect, await, or prepare oneself for
the loss
disenfranchised grief - correct answer ✔✔when the individual cannot openly grieve
complicated grief - correct answer ✔✔dysfunctional grief, the grieving person has a prolonged
or significantly difficult time moving forward after a loss
nurses role - correct answer ✔✔recognize the influence of grief on behavior with types of grief
and factors, access for grieving behaviors like clinical symptoms whether normal or abnormal,
provide empathetic support like therapeutic communication or physical presence, and develop
goals for grief, loss, and end of life with interdisciplinary team approach
normal clinical symptoms of grief - correct answer ✔✔verbalization of the loss, crying, sleep
disturbance, loss of appetite, and difficulty concentrating
complicated grief clinical symptoms - correct answer ✔✔greatest risk for the patient, extended
time of denial, difficulty moving forward, unable to accept the death, conflicted relationships
Study Guide
nursing knowledge base - correct answer ✔✔requires knowledge, brings comfort, makes plans
to care for patients loss, grief, and death, guides the grief process, explains patho of related
illness, knows cultural perspectives on meaning of loss/death, social support, concepts of
caring, concepts of stress and coping
experience of loss, grief and death - correct answer ✔✔person revolves around grief, loss,
knowledge, and death
death - correct answer ✔✔ultimate loss, last developmental task for individual, considered the
ultimate loss, competes the life cycle
types of death - correct answer ✔✔natural, expected, sudden, unexpected and suicide
grief - correct answer ✔✔emotional response to loss, manifested in ways unique to an
individual based on personal experience, cultural expectations and spiritual belief, subjective
response of emotional pain to loss, reacting and responding to the losses in one's life, a natural
and needed reaction to loss, may begin before loss or death occurs
loss examples - correct answer ✔✔losing body parts or function, illness, self-esteem, friendship,
childhood friends, identity, confidence, job or income that is grieved throughout the process of
life
loss - correct answer ✔✔an actual or potential situation in which something that is valued is
changed or no longer available
necessary loss - correct answer ✔✔people learn to live through this loss, eventually replaced
with something different or better
,maturational loss - correct answer ✔✔ending a life span with normally expected life or adult
children leaving the house
situational loss - correct answer ✔✔sudden unpredictable death, automobile accidents leaving
permanent damages in the body leading unable to achieve life goals
actual loss - correct answer ✔✔occurs when a person can no longer feel, see, hear, or know a
person or object like loss of body part, death, losing a job
perceived loss - correct answer ✔✔easy to overlook because internal, uniquely defined by the
person experiencing the loss and is less obvious to other people like rejection from a friend,
rejected by a group that affects our confidence
anticipated loss - correct answer ✔✔having a sense of full extent may not known
bereavement - correct answer ✔✔common depressed reaction to the death of a loved one,
associated with a time of intense personal suffering/sorrow over the loss like emotional and
outward behavior
mourning - correct answer ✔✔reaction activated by a person to assist in overcoming a great
personal loss, include socially/culturally prescribed practices, sometimes it is common to feel an
increase grief on the death anniversary or birthdays
ultimate loss - correct answer ✔✔death
types of loss - correct answer ✔✔maturational loss, situational loss, personal loss, death
, kubler-ross's stages of dying - correct answer ✔✔denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and
acceptance
grief and grieving - correct answer ✔✔the subjective response of emotional pain to loss,
reacting and responding to the losses in one's life, a natural and needed reaction to loss, may
begin before loss or death occurs
types of grief - correct answer ✔✔normal, anticipatory, disenfranchised and complicated grief
normal grief - correct answer ✔✔is a complex response emotional, cognitive, social, behavioral
and spiritual components
anticipatory grief - correct answer ✔✔type of grief is to expect, await, or prepare oneself for
the loss
disenfranchised grief - correct answer ✔✔when the individual cannot openly grieve
complicated grief - correct answer ✔✔dysfunctional grief, the grieving person has a prolonged
or significantly difficult time moving forward after a loss
nurses role - correct answer ✔✔recognize the influence of grief on behavior with types of grief
and factors, access for grieving behaviors like clinical symptoms whether normal or abnormal,
provide empathetic support like therapeutic communication or physical presence, and develop
goals for grief, loss, and end of life with interdisciplinary team approach
normal clinical symptoms of grief - correct answer ✔✔verbalization of the loss, crying, sleep
disturbance, loss of appetite, and difficulty concentrating
complicated grief clinical symptoms - correct answer ✔✔greatest risk for the patient, extended
time of denial, difficulty moving forward, unable to accept the death, conflicted relationships
