Title: The nurse is assessing a dying patient’s spiritual beliefs about death. Which of Post by: colleen on Dec 27, 2012 The nurse is assessing a dying patient’s spiritual beliefs about death. Which of the following acronyms may be utilized as a method help the nurse with this assessment process?
1. ABC 2. FICA 3. DABDA 4. RACE Title: Re: The nurse is assessing a dying patient's spiritual beliefs about death. Which of Post by: robertling on Jan 9, 2013 2 -- Faith, influence, community, and address form the acronym FICA. This can help the nurse move through the spiritual assessment process with a patient. ABC represents airway, breathing, and circulation, and is not related to assessing a dying patient’s spiritual beliefs about death. DABDA represents denial, anger, bargaining, despair, and acceptance and are Kübler-Ross’s stages of grieving. RACE represents the emergency evacuation procedure during a fire: remove, activate, confine, and extinguish, and are not related to this situation.
Title: Re: The nurse is assessing a dying patient's spiritual beliefs about death. Which of Post by: colleen on Jan 10, 2013 Thank you :-*
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