Grief and bereavement. Healing through hurt.
Based on the premise that understanding bereavement as a natural healing process provides a foundation for nursing assessment and intervention, this article focuses on adult reactions to grief. Suggestions for facilitation of healthy grieving in survivors including staff and for sensitive, caring, and empathetic responses are included. Nurses are challenged to use creative ways to help bereaved persons build bridges to health, not walls to loneliness.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D003643:Death; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D013315:Stress, Psychological