Patient Care Assignment

Patient Care Assignment

After reviewing the Patient Reaction to Illness Powerpoint lesson, go to the internet and research each reaction: Anger, Anxiety, Frustration and helplesness, Grief, Guilt, Depression, Dependency, Suspicion.

Create a Word document from your research containing the following:

• At least one strategy for communicating “effectively” with the patient for each reaction to illness. (i.e. helpless, guilt, anger, etc.)

• Write a paragraph describing a time when you experience a patient (family, friend or other) go through these stages.  What was the outcome?  Was the outcome influenced by the healthcare workers he/she/they interactive with?   In your situation, should have the healthcare provider responded/acted differently?

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Patient’s responses to their physical illness provide doctors with basic insight of how they should communicate with them to help them deal with their illness. Doctors are forced to set effective strategies of communicating with the patients to give them hope of cure (Moore, 2010). Depression and anxiety are some of the common responses that patients have to serious illness and results to diminishing

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