Create a 9 pages page paper that discusses nursing: grief and loss, grief theorist x 1 discussion and application.

Create a 9 pages page paper that discusses nursing: grief and loss, grief theorist x 1 discussion and application. The understanding of the very concept of the term will give an objective perspective to the nurse as to the nature of the emotion. Through the years, much effort has een exerted in order to fully understand the concept of grief. Studies assessing how nurses view the emotion have been done (Jacob, 1993). However, an analysis of how nurses view the emotion is just an initial step to solving the dilemma of dealing with grief.

&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.Grief is defined as a multi-faceted emotion in response to loss (Germain, 1990. Wikipedia.com). It not only involves emotional response. It also involves physical, behavioral, social and philosophical aspects. In her book entitled , On Death and Dying, Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross (1969) identified five stages in the grief cycle. The stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Dr. Kubler-Ross maintained that people dealing with grief go through most if not all of these stages in some fashion. Further research found that people could get stuck in a stage and never make it to acceptance and they could regress to earlier stages (Changing Minds, 2005). While the Kubler-Ross is the most well known of theories addressing grief, it does have its critics. Some psychologists believe that people can aid grief recovery by avoiding grief entirely. Further, there is research to indicate that men and women grieve differently which is not accounted for by Kubler-Ross (Greenburg, 2003).Another criticism of Kubler-Ross is that grief is much too complicated to be neatly summarized in five stages. In fact, Kubler-Ross has been misidentified. Instead of the five stages of grief, the Kubler-Ross theory should be called the five stages of receiving catastrophic news. Once the person has made it through the five stages, then the grieving process can begin (Counseling for Loss, 2001).

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