A nurse cared for a terminally ill patient over a month and looked forward to spending time with this patient. After the patient died, the nurse began to sleep poorly, lacked energy, and felt depressed
Eventually the nurse explained these feelings to a mentor. The mentor should counsel the nurse: a. about stress-reduction strategies.
b. to seek therapy for dysfunctional grief.
c. about the experience of disenfranchised grief.
d. to consider taking a leave of absence to pursue healing.
C
The nurse is experiencing disenfranchised grief. Nurses often incur loss that is not openly acknowledged or publicly mourned. Loss of a patient may not be recognized or acknowledged by others, so the grief is solitary and uncomforted and may be difficult to resolve.
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a. results b. summary c. introduction d. abstract
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