Promoting Psychosocial Responses

• Promote Healthy Psychosocial Responses

  1. Invite the patient to record past and current achievements: emotional, social, interpersonal, intellectual, vocational, and physical

  2. Welcome statements the patient reveals about himself or herself

  3. Encourage the patient to express if he or she is able to associate these changes to a specific event in his or her life

  4. Assess the patient's feelings of comfort and content with his or her own performance

  5. Assess how competent patients feel about their ability to perform and carry out their own and others' expectations
• Patients undergoing situational stress often lose sight of their past accomplishments in handling related circumstances
• The feeling of being unloved, unworthy, and incompetent is often expressed by patients with low self-esteem
• Patients with self-esteem issues may appear as though their actions are not in keeping with their own personal, moral, or ethical values; they may also deny these behaviors, project blame, and rationalize personal failure

  
• Spend time with the patient; set aside enough time so that the encounter is calm and deliberate

  1. Provide privacy

  2. Support the patient in his or her attempts to secure autonomy, reality, positive self-esteem, sense of capability, and problem-solving

  3. Educate the patient to join in activities anticipated to result in healthy self-esteem

  4. Present referral information about community resources, self-help groups, and professional counseling
• Sexual Health


  A state of well-being in relation to sexuality across the life span that involves physical, emotional, mental, social and spiritual dimensions
• Sexual health


  Includes the ability to understand the benefits, risks, and responsibilities of sexual behavior; the prevention and care of disease and other adverse outcomes and the possibility of fulfilling sexual relationships
• Failed Adaptation Mechanism leads to psychologic or physiologic manifestations
• Nursing Process in Grief and Dying

  1. Assessment

  2. Nursing Diagnosis

  3. Planning and Outcome Criteria

  4. Nursing Interventions
• Steps in Postmortem Care

  1. Wash hands, provide privacy and gather equipments/paraphernalias/supplies

  2. Place the body in dorsal position with only a small pillow under the head and straighten the body

  3. Close the eyes and mouth when open

  4. Remove extra bed linen and camisa. Leave one sheet to cover the body

  5. Perform cleansing bed bath to the client. Cloth the client as provided by SO

  6. Change surgical dressings if present. Pack anus with cotton or vagina (if female). If there is any discharge from the nose and mouth, pack them too. Use forceps

  7. Pull hands over the chest. Pad wrists with cotton and the tie the 2 wrists together with bandage. Attach one tag to one toe

  8. Put on the shroud. Wrap body with a sheet well. Attach the other tag at the center

  9. Cover the prepared body with a sheet and notify the head nurse or assist in the transport of the body to the morgue

  10. After care and wash hands

  11. Document
• Purpose of Postmortem Care

  • To prepare the body for the morgue
  • To prevent discoloration or deformity of the body
  • To protect the body from post mortem discharge
• Promote Healthy Psychosocial Responses

  1. Invite the patient to record past and current achievements: emotional, social, interpersonal, intellectual, vocational, and physical

  2. Welcome statements the patient reveals about himself or herself

  3. Encourage the patient to express if he or she is able to associate these changes to a specific event in his or her life

  4. Assess the patient's feelings of comfort and content with his or her own performance

  5. Assess how competent patients feel about their ability to perform and carry out their own and others' expectations
• Patients undergoing situational stress often lose sight of their past accomplishments in handling related circumstances
• The feeling of being unloved, unworthy, and incompetent is often expressed by patients with low self-esteem
• Patients with self-esteem issues may appear as though their actions are not in keeping with their own personal, moral, or ethical values; they may also deny these behaviors, project blame, and rationalize personal failure

  
• Spend time with the patient; set aside enough time so that the encounter is calm and deliberate

  1. Provide privacy

  2. Support the patient in his or her attempts to secure autonomy, reality, positive self-esteem, sense of capability, and problem-solving

  3. Educate the patient to join in activities anticipated to result in healthy self-esteem

  4. Present referral information about community resources, self-help groups, and professional counseling
• Sexual Health


  A state of well-being in relation to sexuality across the life span that involves physical, emotional, mental, social and spiritual dimensions
• Sexual health


  Includes the ability to understand the benefits, risks, and responsibilities of sexual behavior; the prevention and care of disease and other adverse outcomes and the possibility of fulfilling sexual relationships
• Failed Adaptation Mechanism leads to psychologic or physiologic manifestations
• Nursing Process in Grief and Dying

  1. Assessment

  2. Nursing Diagnosis

  3. Planning and Outcome Criteria

  4. Nursing Interventions
• Steps in Postmortem Care

  1. Wash hands, provide privacy and gather equipments/paraphernalias/supplies

  2. Place the body in dorsal position with only a small pillow under the head and straighten the body

  3. Close the eyes and mouth when open

  4. Remove extra bed linen and camisa. Leave one sheet to cover the body

  5. Perform cleansing bed bath to the client. Cloth the client as provided by SO

  6. Change surgical dressings if present. Pack anus with cotton or vagina (if female). If there is any discharge from the nose and mouth, pack them too. Use forceps

  7. Pull hands over the chest. Pad wrists with cotton and the tie the 2 wrists together with bandage. Attach one tag to one toe

  8. Put on the shroud. Wrap body with a sheet well. Attach the other tag at the center

  9. Cover the prepared body with a sheet and notify the head nurse or assist in the transport of the body to the morgue

  10. After care and wash hands

  11. Document
• Purpose of Postmortem Care

  • To prepare the body for the morgue
  • To prevent discoloration or deformity of the body
  • To protect the body from post mortem discharge
• Reception- the process of receiving data from the internal or external environment through the senses
• Perception - conscious process of selecting, organizing and interpreting data received from the senses into meaningful information
• Sensory deficits - deficit in the normal function of sensory reception and perception
• sensory deprivation - inadequate quality or quantity of stimulation
• Sensory overload - reception of multiple sensory stimuli
• Self-concept - is an individual's perception of self and is what helps make each individual unique
• Self - esteem - is an individual's generalized sense of worth and value, or how a person regards one's self
• Body Image - attitudes about one's physical attributes and characteristics, appearance, and performance
• Identity - a sense of personal identity, is what sets one person apart as a unique individual. name, gender family status ...
• Role - set of expected behaviors that are determined by familial, cultural, and social norms
• Sexual health - state of well-being in relation to sexuality across the life span that involves physical, emotional, mental, social and spiritual dimensions
• LGBTTQQIAAP


  • Lesbian
  • Gay
  • Bisexual
  • Transgender
  • Transexual
  • Queer
  • Questioning
  • Intersex
  • Ally
  • Asexual
  • Pansexual
• Lesbian


  A woman attracted to a woman
• Gay


  Man attracted to men
• Bisexual


  Attracted to people of their own and opposite gender
• Transgender


  A person whose gender identity differs from their assigned sex at birth
• Transexual


  Outdated term that originates in medical and psychological communities for people who have permanently changed their gender identity through surgery and hormones
• Queer


  Umbrella term to be more inclusive of the many identities and variations that make up the LGBTQ+ community