NUR 215 Final Exam 100% | Questions and Answers with Verified
Solutions | Latest Update 2026
Q: Loss
Answer:
the undesired change or removal of a valued object, person, or situation
Q: actual loss
Answer:
Includes the death of a loved one (or relationship), theft, deterioration, destruction, and
natural disaster.
Can be identified by others, not just the person experiencing it
Q: Perceived loss
Answer:
internal, identified only by the person experiencing it (i.e. woman diagnosed with STI
feeling she lost her purity)
Q: Physical loss
Answer:
includes injuries, removal of an organ, and loss of function
Q: Psychological loss
Answer:
aka internal loss
Challenge our belief system. Commonly seen in the areas of sexuality, control, fairness, meaning, and
trust.
Q: External loss
Answer:
actual losses of objects that are important to the person because of their cost or
sentimental value
can be brought about by theft, destruction, or disasters
Q: Environmental loss
Answer:
involves a change in the familiar, even if the change is perceived as positive
moving to a new home, getting a new job, going to college
,Q: Loss of significant relationships
Answer:
Includes actual loss of spouses, siblings, family members, or significant
others through death, divorce, or separation
Q: Grief
Answer:
Physical, psychological, and spiritual responses to a loss
Q: Mourning
Answer:
actions associated with grief
Q: Bereavement
Answer:
mourning and adjustment time following a loss
Q: Types of grief
Answer:
uncomplicated (normal grief)
anticipatory
complicated
chronic
delayed
masked
disenfranchised
Q: uncomplicated grief
Answer:
aka normal grief
the natural response to a loss
Q: Anticipatory grief
Answer:
experienced before a loss occurs
wife caring for ill husband, diminishing mental capacity with Alezheimer's
Q: Complicated grief
, Answer:
prolonged, acute grief
characterized by length of time (longer than six months) and intensity of emotion (maladaptive,
dysfunctional, prolonged, or overwhelming)
Risk factors:
previous loss, exposure to trauma, sudden death of a significant other, emotional instability, lack of
social support
Examples: chronic, masked, and delayed guilt
Q: Chronic grief
Answer:
excessive in duration, with little resolution of feelings and inability to rejoin normal life
Q: Delayed grief
Answer:
grief that is put off until a later time
Q: Masked grief
Answer:
occurs when the person is grieving, but expressing the grief through other types of
behaviors
i.e. heavily drinking, arguing couple with loss of a child
Q: Disenfranchised grief
Answer:
experienced in connection with a loss that is not socially supported or
acknowledged by the usual rites or ceremonies
i.e. couple experiencing a miscarriage, unplanned termination of a child's foster placement, mistress
whose lover dies
Q: Engel's stages of grief
Answer:
Three stages of grief: shock and disbelief, developing awareness of the loss,
restitution and recovery
uncomplicated grief is clear and predictable modified by abruptness and significance of loss and how
well bereaved person was prepared for it
Q: Bowlby's Phases of Grief
Answer:
Solutions | Latest Update 2026
Q: Loss
Answer:
the undesired change or removal of a valued object, person, or situation
Q: actual loss
Answer:
Includes the death of a loved one (or relationship), theft, deterioration, destruction, and
natural disaster.
Can be identified by others, not just the person experiencing it
Q: Perceived loss
Answer:
internal, identified only by the person experiencing it (i.e. woman diagnosed with STI
feeling she lost her purity)
Q: Physical loss
Answer:
includes injuries, removal of an organ, and loss of function
Q: Psychological loss
Answer:
aka internal loss
Challenge our belief system. Commonly seen in the areas of sexuality, control, fairness, meaning, and
trust.
Q: External loss
Answer:
actual losses of objects that are important to the person because of their cost or
sentimental value
can be brought about by theft, destruction, or disasters
Q: Environmental loss
Answer:
involves a change in the familiar, even if the change is perceived as positive
moving to a new home, getting a new job, going to college
,Q: Loss of significant relationships
Answer:
Includes actual loss of spouses, siblings, family members, or significant
others through death, divorce, or separation
Q: Grief
Answer:
Physical, psychological, and spiritual responses to a loss
Q: Mourning
Answer:
actions associated with grief
Q: Bereavement
Answer:
mourning and adjustment time following a loss
Q: Types of grief
Answer:
uncomplicated (normal grief)
anticipatory
complicated
chronic
delayed
masked
disenfranchised
Q: uncomplicated grief
Answer:
aka normal grief
the natural response to a loss
Q: Anticipatory grief
Answer:
experienced before a loss occurs
wife caring for ill husband, diminishing mental capacity with Alezheimer's
Q: Complicated grief
, Answer:
prolonged, acute grief
characterized by length of time (longer than six months) and intensity of emotion (maladaptive,
dysfunctional, prolonged, or overwhelming)
Risk factors:
previous loss, exposure to trauma, sudden death of a significant other, emotional instability, lack of
social support
Examples: chronic, masked, and delayed guilt
Q: Chronic grief
Answer:
excessive in duration, with little resolution of feelings and inability to rejoin normal life
Q: Delayed grief
Answer:
grief that is put off until a later time
Q: Masked grief
Answer:
occurs when the person is grieving, but expressing the grief through other types of
behaviors
i.e. heavily drinking, arguing couple with loss of a child
Q: Disenfranchised grief
Answer:
experienced in connection with a loss that is not socially supported or
acknowledged by the usual rites or ceremonies
i.e. couple experiencing a miscarriage, unplanned termination of a child's foster placement, mistress
whose lover dies
Q: Engel's stages of grief
Answer:
Three stages of grief: shock and disbelief, developing awareness of the loss,
restitution and recovery
uncomplicated grief is clear and predictable modified by abruptness and significance of loss and how
well bereaved person was prepared for it
Q: Bowlby's Phases of Grief
Answer:
