Title: Identify a nurse's responsibilities associated with the death of a client.
Course: Practical Nursing II (14052-II) > Section: Understanding Concepts of Grief, Death, and Dying

Identification should include

- agencies that provide assistance
- importance of the nurse to family and significant others
- advance directives
- postmortem care
- cultural considerations.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What agencies provide assistance to the terminally ill, and what services does each provide?
- What assistance is available to veterans?
- Why is a nurse important to the family of a dying client?
- What are advance directives associated with death, including living wills, organ donations, coroner's case, and death certificates?
- Who pronounces death in the United States?
- What are the steps in postmortem care?
- Who needs to be notified of the death of a client?
- What is brain death, and how does it differ from death of the body?