2024
Family and Grieving Process
Name: Family and Grieving Process
Code: ENF14505M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/162 hours
Scientific Area:
Nursing
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Presentation
The UC is intended for the content of caring for the family and support in loss and grief
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Perform a social and family evaluation and establish nursing diagnosis, considering the family as a target of care;
Plan care for and with the family, considering the promotion of their autonomy and prevention of claudication, helping them to deal with suffering, pain and losses;
Characterize the normal bereavement process and differentiate from pathological bereavement;
Reflect on the therapeutic intervention with the patient and family in the different stages of bereavement, recognizing preventive actions regarding pathological bereavement;
Mobilize evidence, adequately supporting the construction of the family-oriented nursing process.
Plan care for and with the family, considering the promotion of their autonomy and prevention of claudication, helping them to deal with suffering, pain and losses;
Characterize the normal bereavement process and differentiate from pathological bereavement;
Reflect on the therapeutic intervention with the patient and family in the different stages of bereavement, recognizing preventive actions regarding pathological bereavement;
Mobilize evidence, adequately supporting the construction of the family-oriented nursing process.
Contents
CARING FOR THE FAMILY
Concepts: Family. Informal Caregiver
Adaptation process in the progression of illness and death.
Psychosocial assessment of the family. Social and family assessment instruments. Genogram and Ecomap
Diagnosis of caregiver / family needs.
Caring for caregivers / family members, preventing / intervening in situations of exhaustion, especially family claudication
Training for self-care. Negotiation of care goals and objectives, mutually agreed, within the therapeutic regime.
Training the caregiver / family in the management and implementation of the care plan and the therapeutic regime
CARING FOR THE LOSS AND GRIEF PROCESS
Loss and Grief Process: concept, characterization of the process, experience and phases of grief. Therapeutic intervention in the process of loss and grief, considering the tasks of solving grief
Anticipatory and complicated mourning, intervention and care
Mourning for professionals.
Concepts: Family. Informal Caregiver
Adaptation process in the progression of illness and death.
Psychosocial assessment of the family. Social and family assessment instruments. Genogram and Ecomap
Diagnosis of caregiver / family needs.
Caring for caregivers / family members, preventing / intervening in situations of exhaustion, especially family claudication
Training for self-care. Negotiation of care goals and objectives, mutually agreed, within the therapeutic regime.
Training the caregiver / family in the management and implementation of the care plan and the therapeutic regime
CARING FOR THE LOSS AND GRIEF PROCESS
Loss and Grief Process: concept, characterization of the process, experience and phases of grief. Therapeutic intervention in the process of loss and grief, considering the tasks of solving grief
Anticipatory and complicated mourning, intervention and care
Mourning for professionals.
Teaching Methods
Oral expository methodology of theoretical contents; and interactive with students through group work, film viewing, and critical reflection of practical cases.
Evaluation methodology: Description and analysis of a real (or ceded by professors) clinical case of a Family in Grief. The analysis must accompany the description of the situation/clinical cases in all components: initial assessment; identification of family needs (diagnosis(s)); and planning of care, waiting for the mobilization of evidence, emphasizing new knowledge.
Evaluation methodology: Description and analysis of a real (or ceded by professors) clinical case of a Family in Grief. The analysis must accompany the description of the situation/clinical cases in all components: initial assessment; identification of family needs (diagnosis(s)); and planning of care, waiting for the mobilization of evidence, emphasizing new knowledge.
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