Types of loss include safety loss (loss of a safe environment), loss of security and a
sense of belonging (loss of a loved one affects the need to love
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loved), loss of self-esteem (any change in how a person is valued at work or in
relationships or by him or herself), or loss related to self-actualization (external or
internal crisis that blocks or inhibits strivings toward fulfillment). - A young couple just
ended their relationship after a 9-month engagement. The one of the individuals is
seeking short-term counseling to assist in grieving this loss. Which type of loss best
describes what this client is experiencing?
A) Safety loss
B) Loss of security and sense of belonging
C) Loss of self-esteem
D) Loss related to self-actualization
Ans: D
Safety loss is the loss of a safe environment. That feeling of safety is shattered when
public violence occurs - A child who has witnessed the murder of his classmate while at
school would experience which kind of loss?
A) Physiologic loss
B) Loss of self-esteem
C) Loss related to self-actualization
D) Safety loss
Ans: C
Bereavement refers to the process by which a person experiences the grief. - Which of
the following terms is used to describe the process by which a person experiences the
grief?
A) Anticipatory grieving
B) Disenfranchised grief
C) Bereavement
D) Mourning
Ans: C
Bargaining occurs when the person asks God or fate for more time to delay the
inevitable loss. - A client has just been informed of a diagnosis of terminal cancer. The
client states, "God has to have mercy on me because my children need me. He knows
I'll change if he gets me through this." The nurse documents that the wife is expressing
signs of which of Kubler-Ross's stages of grief?
A) Denial
B) Anger
C) Bargaining
D) Depression
Ans: D
The client's symptoms are characteristics of depression, which usually occurs when
awareness of the loss becomes acute - After being laid off from work, a client becomes
increasingly withdrawn and fatigued, spends entire days in bed, is unkempt, and is
eating and sleeping poorly. The nurse would recognize that the client is in which stage
of grieving, according to Kubler-Ross?
A) Anger
B) Bargaining
C) Denial
D) Depression
Ans: C
Clients often set goals such as living until a certain time or to experience a particular
event, and then they will be ready to die: that is the bargain - The client says to the
nurse, I really want to see my first grandchild born before I die. Is that too much to ask?
The nurse would recognize that the client is in which stage of grieving, according to
Kubler-Ross?
A) Acceptance
B) Anger
C) Bargaining
D) Depression
Ans: C
Acceptance occurs when the person shows evidence of coming to terms with death. -
Kubler-Ross developed a model of five stages to explain what people experience as
they grieve and mourn. Which is stage V of Kubler-Ross's stages of grieving?
A) Denial
B) Bargaining
C) Acceptance
D) Anger
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