Hey everyone! I am so sorry that i haven’t posted anything recently. You know how life gets in the way right? 
And I have finals this week and next so I have been crunching with all my studying.
So anyways for today I thought I would touch on the grieving process. This is based on Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’ theory, To me, it seems to make a lot of sense, I can see though how some of the stages could be switched around. I have included an example following both stage based on the patient being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
1) Denial – this is very commonly seen. Where the patient doesn’t want to accept what they are being told.
2) Anger – very quickly follows the denial. This is a good reason why there is a witness in the room, this is one of the reasons. When some individuals get angry enough violence can break out. As a professional nurse, or doctor you need to allow all of this feeling come out, while it is still safe for them to do so. This will aid in the entire process of grieving.
3) Bargaining – this is when the patient starts asking the doctor or nurse what other options there are. Whether there are alternative medicines, new drugs, and methods of medicine that can be used to continue there life.
4) Depression – obviously this will be when the person may become tearful, maybe spilling feelings of sadness and parts of life they fell they haven’t finished.
5) Acceptance – when the person understands and come to terms with what they have heard, and they understand what has happened to them, and are willing and ready to either continue living as they are or are willing to take treatment.
And those are the steps to grieving. Sometimes you will find in yourself or see in others that some steps are switched especially steps four and five, but the person will still successfully be able to grieve.
