Grief and bereavement in Primary Care
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Ruymán Brito Brito P, Martín Rodríguez A, Toledo Rosell C. El duelo en Atención Primaria. Metas de Enferm jul/ago 2006; 9(6): 69-71
Authors
Pedro Ruymán Brito Brito1, Martín Rodríguez Álvaro2, Cristina Toledo Rosell3
Position
Diplomado en Enfermería. Licenciado en Periodismo. Máster en Cuidados al final de la vida. Servicio Canario de Salud. Atención Pr
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Avda El Paso 29, ed Sara I, 4º M. Los Majuelos, Taco, La Laguna. 38108 Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Contact email: ruyman@tanatologia.org
Abstract
Nursing is, by definition, a profession that deals with how human beings respond to vital situations. From this perspective, the role that the nurse plays in the grieving process can be very helpful. To be helpful it requires several tools that ensure the delivery of adequate and effective care: curricular training in normal, healthy and/or adaptative grieving processes, communication skills, and management of the attention process in nursing in everything that related to diagnostic labels such as anxiety in the face of death, anticipated grief and dysfunctional grief. The Primary Care nurse is in a privileged position to care for people who have suffered the loss of a beloved one. These nurses are professionals that are normally aware of the lives of their patients and in so doing the can set up elements that ensure the follow up of a “healthy” grieving process, including therapeutic communication, accompaniment to pain, active listening, empathy, etc.
Keywords:
death; nursing; loss; grieving process
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