Strategies for teaching loss, grief, and bereavement.

Full Abstract

Teaching loss, grief, and bereavement to nursing students should be an interactive process to stimulate critical thinking and address the affective domain of learning. Lecture as a teaching methodology may be the easiest to prepare and deliver; however, used alone, it is ineffective in identifying perceptions, fears, and issues related to dying and death. Personal and professional experiences of loss, grief, and bereavement are central to student's learning of effective and compassionate care of the dying patient and their family. Strategies that explore such experiences allow students to move forward and focus on the cognitive retention of content related to loss, grief, and bereavement, as well as the ability to learn related psychomotor skills. The authors discuss pedagogical methods for teaching student nurses about loss, grief, and bereavement utilizing the End of Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) curriculum training materials.

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Author information

Author/s: Matzo, Marianne LaPorte (ML); Sherman, Deborah Witt (DW); Lo, Karen (K); Egan, Kathleen A (KA); Grant, Marcia (M); Rhome, Anne (A);

Affiliation: Union Institute and University, Cincinatti, Ohio, USA. mmatzo@tui.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Nurse educator (Nurse Educ), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: -2003 Mar-Apr; vol 28 (issue 2) : pp 71-6

Dates: Created 2003/03/20; Completed 2003/04/28; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 12646826, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Humans
Nurse's Role
Nursing Assessment
Patient Care Planning
Social Support
Students, Nursing - psychology
Teaching - methods
Terminal Care - methods; psychology

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