Pain
This can result in a change in a patient's vital signs.
What is pain?
A sore that does not heal, blood in the stool or urine, and bloody phlegm in the lungs.
What are warning signs of cancer.
Cancer cells can spread to other areas of the body. These are common sites.
What are the brain, bone, prostate gland and lung
Another name for an Advanced Care Directive
What is a Life Care Directive
A place where palliative care is provided outside of the hospital or the home.
What is a hospice?
Pain can increase when a patient is
What is tired?
Diet and smoking
What are the two most modifiable life-style factors that are MOST responsible for the development of cancer.
The use of high powered radioactive beams to kill cancer cells.
What is radiation?
Respirations that stop for upwards of 20 seconds and then start again. Usually a sign that death is approaching
What are Cheyne-Stokes respirations.
Care of the body after death.
What is postmortem care?
This involves taking the focus off of a person's pain by focusing on something else in their environment.
What is distraction?
The type and size of the tumor.
What factors are the major ones to determine the treatment used to treat cancer.
Cancer cells that have spread to other parts of the body, often through the lymphatic system.
What is metastasis?
Another word for assisted suicide
What is Euthanasia.
The first phase of grief according to Dr. Elizabeth-Kubler Ross
What is denial?
This influences how a person reacts and responds to pain.
What is their culture?
The treatment of cancer using specific drugs
What is chemotherapy.
The removal of the urinary bladder as a treatment for urinary cancer.
What is a urostomy?
Washing the face and hands gently and giving a back massage.
What are comfort measures used to help a dying client feel better.
"DNR" stands for
What is "do not resuscitate"?
Older people do not respond to pain with the same intensity as a younger person because...
What is they have a reduction in sensory perception.
Hair loss associated with chemotherapy.
What is alopecia?
The removal of part of the colon as a treatment for colon cancer.
What is a colostomy?
The goal of treatment is for quality of life, not quantity.
What is palliative care?
The last of the senses to be lost as death approaches.
What is hearing?