Advance Care Planning
POLST is the acronym for this
What is Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment?
Hospice care ends when the patient dies.
What is Myth? Grief and bereavement services are available to family members after the patient dies.
The need for hospice and palliative care is expected to (increase, decrease, or remain the same) over the next 20-30 years.
What is increase? The need for hospice and palliative care services will increase dramatically over the next 20 to 30 years.
This role provides direct patient care, serving as a patient advocate, care coordinator, and educator.
What are nurses?
Connecting with others in this type of group can be comforting, helping families and loved ones feel less alone in their grief.
What are support groups?
True or False: A POLST can be used to name a healthcare agent
What is False? A health care directive is used to identify someone (a “health care agent”)
Once on hospice any therapies (PT/OT/Speech) have to be discontinued.
What is Myth? Many forms of therapy, with a focus on comfort, can continue on hospice.
The first hospice in the United States, founded in 1974 in this small northeast state by nurse Florence Wald.
What is Connecticut?
The first hospice in the United States was The Connecticut Hospice, founded in 1974 in Branford, Connecticut, by nurse Florence Wald
This role attends to family dynamics, assess and support coping mechanisms and social determinants of health, identify and facilitate access to resources, and mediate conflicts
What are social workers?
True or False: Grief is predictable and people experience it the same.
What is False? Grief is individualized and everyone grieves differently.
The percentage of Americans who have an advanced directive
What is 33% or 1/3?
You are only allowed to use hospice services once in your lifetime.
What is Myth? Hospice care can be used as long as the patient continues to meet the requirements.
After a successful pilot program, Congress created the Medicare Hospice Benefit in this year.
What is 1982?
A U.S. government task force determined in 1978 that hospice was a viable concept that could both improve end-of-life care and decrease overall Medicare expenses. A subsequent successful pilot program led Congress to create a hospice benefit in 1982.
This role assesses and addresses spiritual issues and helps to facilitate continuity with the patient’s faith community as requested
What are chaplains?
This type of grief happens before an expected death or loss.
What is anticipatory grief?
True or False: Healthcare directives have to be renewed every 10 years.
What is False? Your health care directive lasts until you change or cancel it.
A patient must voluntarily enroll in hospice.
What is Fact? The patient signs a hospice election statement to enroll.
Cicely Saunders is widely recognized for developing the first modern hospice, St Christopher's, in this international city in 1967.
What is London, England?
That hospice was unique in its care for patients with all diagnoses, with any religious affiliation, and of any social class.
This role focuses on the illness trajectory, prognosis, and medical treatments, including making patient visits or providing supervision.
What are physicians?
Most hospice services provide bereavement services for this many months following the death of the patient.
What is 13 months?
This document must be witnessed by a notary public or two people to be valid.
What is a health care directive?
Patients on hospice are still able to go to the hospital.
What is Fact? But it's generally recommended for emergencies or conditions unrelated to terminal illness
The first edition of the NCP Guidelines, published in this year, presented a blueprint for excellence in the delivery of palliative care
What is 2004?
This role, which are not physicians, expands the capacity to deliver complex care and provide direct care
Who are advanced practice providers (Physician assistants, advanced practice registered nurses).
Grief and bereavement support and interventions are in accordance with developmental, cultural, and these needs, and the expectations and preferences of the family.
What are spiritual?