GRIEVING ANTICIPATIONAL/ DYSFUNCTIONAL (27)    NUPA ASSESSMENT PROBLEMS (1927.2)

• Assess emotional status and current response to grief.
• Educate patient on grief process and available resources.
• Encourage patient to use available support systems.
• Encourage patient to use expressions of feeling.
• Help patient focus realistically on changes related to the loss and formulate goals for discharge.
• Other

Extended, unsuccessful use of intellectual and emotional responses to a 
real or perceived loss.