Title: Identify the major fears of the dying client.
Course: Practical Nursing II (14052-II) > Section: Understanding Concepts of Grief, Death, and Dying

Identification should include

- psychological and physiological fears
- loneliness and abandonment
- meaninglessness.

Process/Skill Questions:

- How can the psychological and physiological fears of pain be differentiated?
- What methods might alleviate the client's fear of pain?
- What methods might alleviate the client's fear of loneliness and abandonment?
- What methods might alleviate feelings of meaningless at the end of the client’s life?