Recognize different types and meaning of pain Explain the assessment of pain in patients with advanced disease. Relate pharmacological measures in controlling pain. Summarize non-narcotic therapies for pain control. Apply the human needs model to physiological care. Synthesize knowledge of disease progressions and symptom prevention and control.
Objectives Describe a psychosocial model of the dying process.
Explain Biren's tasks of the person who is dying. Summarize Weisman's characteristics of appropriate death. Summarize Shneidman's principles, goals, and beliefs. Explain Kubler-Ross' stages. Apply Erikson's developmental stages to the care of people who are dying.