Hlsc11- Individual Essay Stage 2

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Assessment 2 (b): Individual Essay Stage 2 Poor prognosis is when an individual is diagnosed with a disease that typically has poor expectations of any treatment being successful or not changing treatment and their lives remain the same the patient’s chances of recovery are limited (Bruera, 2001). When experiencing a newly diagnosed condition with a poor outcome, the patient can often respond in various ways that include emotional, physical, cognitive and/or behavioral reactions. Patients respond in these different ways because of how they individually manage the news of their prognosis. The following paragraphs will discuss the different type of responses that a patient may experience when dealing with being diagnosed. For example if a patient is told they have been diagnosed with a poor prognosis their instant reaction is usually shock, which is a sudden surprising or upsetting event and experience that disturbs your emotions. Emotional response is the reaction of feelings to particular situations. Patients are individuals that have there own personal set of life skills, experiences and their individual ways of dealing with their emotions in different situations. When a person is being diagnosed with a poor prognosis some of the feelings they may undertake are shock, denial, sadness, anger and/or fear. These emotions generally trigger grief and sadness they then grieve the declining of health and certainty in their lives (Gill, 2012). Greif is a term that comes from a heavy weight that has been put onto a person; it is one’s response both internally and externally to the influence of loss (Oxford English Dictionary, 1989, vol. 6, pp. 834-853). This emotion is usually maintained for a long or short period of time depending on the patient and can be considered a normal response to a reflective alteration in an their life. It can also lead to depression, which is

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