Articles tagged with: Grief
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As a Nurse Life Care Planner, I often work with individuals who have suffered an amputation. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross is responsible for outlining what we know today as the grieving process. This grief cycle is not only associated with those who have lost loved ones, but other types of loss including limb loss. Initially, there were five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Later, her theory took on two additional stages: shock and testing.
Shock stage: Initial paralysis at hearing the bad news.
Denial stage: Trying to avoid the inevitable.
Anger …
