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1. What is the difference between normal grieving and complicated grieving? 2. Explain what the Patient Self Determination Act is and how it is used. 3. For each of the following body systems, identify three physical manifestations that the nurse would expect to see in a patient approaching death. Respiratory a. b. c. Skin a. b. c. Gastrointestinal a. b. c. Musculoskeletal a. b. c. 4. What are some nursing interventions to help with the physiological needs to provide the patient with dignity and comfort as death approaches?
5. What is the LVN's role if the patient is found with no respirations and no pulse? 6. When would an autopsy be performed? 7. Explain about the organ donation protocol. 8. During postmortem care, what does the nurse do? 9. Describe three different cultural views/observations about death/burial. 10. Discuss why it is imperative for Nurses to have a grasp on their own feelings of mortality/death prior to caring for others during this process.