Explore your response to being given a terminal diagnosis. What coping mechanisms work for you? With which awareness approach would you be comfortable?

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1. Explore your response to being given a terminal diagnosis. What coping mechanisms work for you? With which awareness approach would you be comfortable?
2. Describe the priority nursing actions related to a dying person and their family when they are especially protective of one another.
3. Describe and strategize how you would bring up the topic of advance directives.
4. What advance directive related to end of life is legally recognized in your state?
5. Describe how you would introduce the topic of dying with a patient who is critically ill and not expected to live.
   AT CLINICAL: Ask a nurse about the policy surrounding a death at the clinical facility.
   What is the process after the body dies?
   What events occur prior to the death?
   What does the facility do to facilitate a good death?
   Does the facility have a contract with Hospice services? What does that entail?
   POST CLINICAL:
   What is an ethical dilemma?
   Describe or provide details of either a real or fictitious ethical dilemma you have experienced or could experience.
   What were the choices or responses that caused it to be an ethical dilemma?
   What was the end result?