Safety / Milieu Management / Observations

I chose the GriefShare support group because as nurses we will need to help our patients and their families with the grief process when a loved one passes away. On March 29, 2014, I met Claudette St. John, the group leader, at 6:45pm at Northwest Christian Church in Acworth, GA. Rick Baldwin also attended the meeting. The group meets from 7-8:30pm. Claudette shared that she has been doing grief support classes for the past 20 years and the past 3 years she has been doing GriefShare at Northwest Christian. She lost her teenage daughter in a car accident 20 years ago. She expressed that there really are not any rules, other than just respecting each individual. She tasks herself with keeping the meetings on track and has a democratic leadership style. GriefShare is a Christian based program consisting of 13 weekly session. Participants do not need to attend all 13 sessions, the sessions can also be done individually. A workbook is given to those that are participating in the program. GriefShare’s goal is to help those experiencing grief, work through the process and recognize the different aspects of grief that they may encounter.

The role of relatives and friends is important in the lives of residents. Sometimes just knowing that there is someone to talk to and confide in can help people overcomes their problems just as much as any treatment. The participation

1There is an identified need for a community level hospital intervention that will focus on adolescents dealing with grief and loss. The public health groups in hospitals are aimed at disease prevention and health promotion for adults and families who are at high-risk. These groups only focus on members who have high-risk health conditions and risky lifestyle behaviors, but they do not address the idea of death resulting from these high-risk behaviors. Clearly, these public health interventions do not target adolescents who share the commonality of grief and loss. These groups ignore the effects of death and the role it can play in determining one’s actions. Both the public health group and the grief and loss

The meeting started with the welcoming greetings from the facilitator, and she read some rules for the meeting from a “12 Traditions” book: keep confidentiality, stay in the “here and now”; make “I” statements, share feelings, no crosstalk or advice giving. There was some tension when it was time for someone to share the story, so we all sat patiently and waited when someone would finally have enough courage to talk

It is the policy of the Department of Veterans Affairs ("VA") to create and maintain a written safety policy to help ensure accuracy of communication and accountability for results. The safety policy is outlined below is approved by the Secretary of the VA and applies to all VA facilities worldwide.

Siena Heights University (SHU) Department of Public Safety (DPS) was called by Emily Burkman and asked for a welfare check on Donte Fox because he had argument with his girlfriend and maybe suicidal.

The author’s intent for this book is to make available a reliable source of information for caregivers of the seriously ill. Dr. Walton discussed the physical and emotional needs of patients and caregivers. He made available information that will be valuable to, what he terms Spiritual Care Providers, whether highly trained professionals or Christian laypersons.

People we don’t know or may never know can have a tremendous positive effect on our lives. Sometimes we discount the emotional support family and friends can provide. The effects of a single moment in time could lead to a lifelong physical ailment, if not for the help of family and strangers. Having a strong bond with family and our community can make the difference that is needed to make it through a tumultuous time. Having to face a life-altering accident on our own can be scary, but can be turned around in some of the most unexpected ways. Sometimes from people we never expected help to come from.

Empathy and compassion might seem automatic when caring for those in need. The sad reality is that working in an environment in where death becomes casual and common such as other tragedies, we conform to ignore the little idiosyncrasies that accompany sorrow and mourning. This story provides hope and comfort in knowing that as providers we still have the power to feel and to give when is needed. The human element of empathy transcend skills and specialties that are focused in care.

It is very important that all human service agencies remain a culturally safe place, due to the vast amount of diversity in client groups for these organisation. Cultural safety was covered in the very first learning circle and has remained an important topic that has been covered several different times. An organisation that ensures cultural safety practices should ensure clients feel that they will not be judged or treated differently, that they are in a safe place and that they ae in a caring and understanding space. For instance, when working with clients that are a part of the LQBTIQA community, it would be a cultural safety practice to refrain for assuming a client’s gender or sexual orientation. It would also be appropriate if not appreciated

The group I will use for this paper is a “Friends in Grief” support group I co-facilitated. This group met for five weeks with the members experiencing the similarity of the death of a loved one. The purpose of the group was a safe place where people can come to heal by mourning, supporting, encouraging, and expressing grief with others. This agency limits groups of this type to twelve members to ensure that each member is comfortable in the small chapel in which the group is held however, this group was composed of two men and six females. All group members were Caucasian and had lost a spouse of forty plus years. Every member of the group lived in an upscale fifty-five plus community and all had retired (or retired spouse) from a distinguished profession with pensions. Two of the female members had identifying disabilities. The youngest female was born with a neurological disorder and the other was hard of hearing. There was one female group member who was born and raised in Germany.

During my course of employment with the military and in a supervisor position there are definitely issues and situations that arise where I need to take action with employees. Recently, I had a member of our unit that was not keeping up their mandatory requirements to maintain their military duty. As the supervisor of this individual it was my duty to figure out why they were not keeping up with the requirements and see what I could do to help get the requirements up to date before any further action would be taken.

Grieving had become a lifestyle, I sat around my home for quite some time by myself, crying, agonizing and suffering. I reluctantly waited for the phone to ring, wondering if I’d ever hear from my siblings or their children again. My family had gone through an extreme and unthinkable tragedy and needed to communicate, but this didn’t happen. We were all so wrapped up in our agonizing pain that we forgot to check on one another. Our previously happy family had been shattered, extremely damaged and seemingly irreversible with no evidence of healing any time soon. We were broken, even worse, for the first time, we were divided.

SMS provides a systematic way to identify hazards and control risks while maintaining assurance that these risks controls are effective.

Hospital professional will also verbally inform patients about the group. Members will receive an automotive reminder call from the hospital about the meeting on Tuesday. The automotive call will allow adolescents to cancel or leave a message for the group leaders. Because this group will be held in the hospital setting recruitment will be handled by the hospital’s designated intake department. In the grief and loss group the discussions will be centered on the member’s past relationship with the deceased. This 15 week group is for adolescents from age 13 to19 that have lost a parent within the last five years or have a parent who is terminally