Description:
This presentation will address the challenging aspects of grief, loss and bereavement of patients and families as well as the loss experiences of health care professionals.

Objectives:

• Define loss, mourning, grief and bereavement
• Provide three interventions that may be appropriate to facilitate normal grief/bereavement
• Define personal death awareness and cumulative loss associated with professional caregiving
• Identify four systems of support the nurse can access to assist in coping with death anxiety and loss.
  

*** Hospice Education Network is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses, Inc., an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

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