A preoperative patient says to the nurse, "I hope I wake up after surgery. I don't know what my family would do if I didn't." The nurse realizes this patient is demonstrating which potential problem?
1. coping
2. chronic sorrow
3. anticipatory grieving
4. death anxiety
Correct Answer: 3
Anticipatory grieving is a combination of intellectual and emotional responses and behavior by which people adjust their self-concept in the face of a potential loss. This patient is expressing a feeling, not demonstrating coping. This patient is not demonstrating chronic sorrow, which is a "cyclical, recurring, and potentially progressive pattern of pervasive sadness experienced in response to continual loss, throughout the trajectory of an illness or disability." This patient is not experiencing death anxiety, which is worry or fear related to death or dying. It may be present in patients who have an acute life-threatening illness, who have a terminal illness, who have experienced the death of a family member or friend, or who have experienced multiple deaths in the same family.
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