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Case Study: Death and dying- Read and review Chapter 43- (Loss, Grief, & Dying). Review recording under Module 10 from Joliet Area Community Hospice. Simulation Scenario: Patient is wheezing, Sats drop to 89%, skin is mottled, patient is full code. You will need to apply oxygen and titrate the amount of oxygen up from nasal cannula, to simple face mask, to non rebreather mask. You will then give an S.B.A.R. report to the provider. You will administer a nebulizer treatment. While the nebulizer is going, your patient's family has a care conference with palliative care providers and they decide to back off on aggressive cares and move to a comfort care approach. You will need to use what you learned in Chapter 43- Loss, Griet, and dying along with other resources to alter your plan of care for your patient once the family and patient have decided to switch to comfort care. Review the signs of impending death. Review the likely goals a person will have when changing from acute care to hospice/comfort care or palliative care according to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
"lt is well within the scope of your professional practice as a competent nurse to provide counseling and death education, especially when the patient asks for it and indicates an unmet need for such information" (Taylor, Lillis & Lynn, 2015, p. 1618). When should you call in family and notify them of impending death? What is involved in post-mortem care? Caring for the body Caring for the family-