Provide emotional support for patients/clients and their families.

Provision should include

• coping mechanisms for patients/clients and families dealing with grief, death, and dying
• care related to the special-needs patient/client (e.g., physically, sensory, cognitively, and/or mentally impaired)
• one-on-one care for patients who are at risk of suicide.

Process/Skill Questions:

• What special considerations are important when performing postmortem care on a Muslim patient/client?
• What is the appropriate action when a patient/client communicates a desire for death?