NURS 2280 Lecture : Psychosocial care to patients with cancer and families.docx
11 Apr 2013
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Lecture 2: part 2: providing psychosocial care to patients with cancer & their families. Help me understand . " validating the person"s feeling, fears, concerns: assisting in exploring the issues, helping sort out their own problems, coaching, guiding, facilitating. What next: understand what is happening(background, how is it affecting their life, how are they feeling about it, what is troubling them the most, how are they handling it/managing. The more answers you have the less therapeutic you will be. Be present to help them sort out their own problems, not provide the answers. Coping well" , coping poorly", coping right now by . " judge) how someone is coping is the same. Reactions & responses: turn to others for informational & emotional support. More accurate words to use: avoiding, pretending, distancing, minimizing. Coping style: one way is not better than the other: confronters, avoiders. Remember: if a person is in the hospital getting treatment, they are not in denial.
