Episode 236: Coping With Grief [Video]

“Acknowledge that grief is a reoccurring theme. This isn’t something that’s a one and done. This is a process that you’re going to continue to revisit, and in recognizing that, I think this allows us to be more proactive and responsive to this emotional part of our job,” ONS member Carla Jolley, MN, ARNP, ANP-BC, AOCN®, ACHPN, palliative care advanced practice nurse and coordinator for the palliative care consult service embedded within the oncology program at the Whidbey Health Medical Center in Coupeville, WA, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BC, AOCNS®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, in a conversation about how oncology nurses can approach and manage the grief they face in their work. You can earn free NCPD contact hours after listening to this episode and completing the evaluation linked below.

Music Credit: “Fireflies and Stardust (http://www.incompetech.com/) ” by Kevin MacLeod

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Earn 1.00 contact hour of nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) by listening to the full recording and completing an evaluation at myoutcomes.ons.org by December 2, 2024. The planners and faculty for this episode have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. ONS is accredited as a provider of NCPD by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Learning outcome: Upon completion of this activity, the learner will report an increase in knowledge related to grief experienced by oncology nurses.

Episode Notes

• Complete this evaluation for free NCPD contact hours (https://courses.ons.org/diweb/gateway/init/1/f/catalog*2Fitem*2Feid*2FP476) .

• Oncology Nursing Podcast episodes:

• Episode 85: Nursing Resilience and Self-Care Aren’t Optional (https://www.ons.org/podcasts/episode-85-nursing-resilience-and-self-care-arent-optional)

• Episode 135: ELNEC Has Trained More Than One Million Nurses in End-of-Life Care (https://www.ons.org/podcasts/episode-135-elnec-has-trained-more-one-million-nurses-end-life-care)

• Episode 187: The Critical Need for Well-Being and Resiliency and How to Practice (https://www.ons.org/podcasts/episode-187-critical-need-well-being-and-resiliency-and-how-practice)

• ONS Voice articles:

• When Grief Goes Beyond Burnout, Organizations Must Intervene (https://voice.ons.org/news-and-views/when-grief-goes-beyond-burnout-organizations-must-intervene)

• A Deliberate Well-Being Plan Protects You From the Hazards of Your Work (https://voice.ons.org/conferences/a-deliberate-well-being-plan-protects-you-from-the-hazards-of-your-work)

• Use Storytelling to Hear Your Patient’s Voice (https://voice.ons.org/news-and-views/use-storytelling-to-hear-your-patients-voice)

• Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing articles:

• Complicated Grief: Risk Factors, Interventions, and Resources for Oncology Nurses (https://www.ons.org/cjon/21/3/complicated-grief-risk-factors-interventions-and-resources-oncology-nurses)

• Songs for the Soul: A Program to Address a Nurse’s Grief (http://cjon.ons.org/cjon/21/2-0/songs-soul-program-address-nurse-s-grief)

• A Concept Analysis of Nurses’ Grief (https://www.ons.org/cjon/19/5/concept-analysis-nurses-grief)

• Helping Nurses Cope With Grief and Compassion Fatigue: An Educational Intervention (https://www.ons.org/cjon/18/4/helping-nurses-cope-grief-and-compassion-fatigue-educational-intervention)

• ONS course: Facilitating Intentional Conversations (https://www.ons.org/courses/facilitating-intentional-conversations-parts-1-and-2)

• ONS Nurse Well-Being Learning Library (https://www.ons.org/learning-libraries/well-being-nurses)

• ONS Information Regarding the Coronavirus (COVID-19) (https://www.ons.org/learning-libraries/coronavirus)

• ONS Sympathy Notecards (https://www.ons.org/store/sympathy-notecards-10-pack)

• Journal of Radiology Nursing article: Can You PACE Yourself? Using PACE in the Clinical Setting, at End of Life and in Grief Work (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1546084320301942)

• Dealing With GRIEF: A Series of Five Short, Powerful Videos (https://advancingexpertcare.org/griefresources)

• com (https://grief.com/)

• End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (https://www.aacnnursing.org/ELNEC)

To discuss the information in this episode with other oncology nurses, visit the ONS Communities (http://communities.ons.org/) .

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