Identify the stages of dying.
Identification should include
- body system shutdown
- disorientation or confusion
- level of consciousness
- changes in circulation to extremities
- changes in skin color
- labored breathing
- physical weakness
- loss of appetite
- incontinence
- hearing/sensory
- legal definition of death.
Process/Skill Questions:
- What is skin slip?
- What is the last sense to leave a dying person?
- What is the legal definition of death?