Death
What is the final stage of human growth and development?
Death
Cessation of life is called?
Death
What are the five aspects of human functioning to assess in the dying patient:
Physical, emotional, intellectual, sociocultural, and spiritual
What is the overall objective of hospice services?
Keep the patient comfortable as death approaches
Grief therapy means?
Mental health treatment aimed at helping a patient deal with the pain of loss.
Term referring to after death.
Postmortem
The process of resolution of the hurt and the reestablishment of life is called _________ __________.
Grief Process
This age of child associates death with aggression or violence:
A. Infant to 5 years
B. 5 to 9 years
C. 9-12 years
D. 12-18 years
B. 5-9 years
What does mortality mean?
Condition of being subject to death.
A clients family member states " you must be mistaken" after the death of her son.
What stage of grief is this?
Denial
How does a perceived loss differ from an actual loss?
A preceivedloss is easily overlooked.
Definition of Thanatology.
The study of death and dying.
The first thing a nurse should do before involving a family in the care of a dying patient?
Ask the family members if they want to assist with care.
Hospice services are appropriate when _________ treatment is no longer effective.
Curative
What does DNR mean?
Do-not-resuscitate.
Name 6 vital organs that can be donated:
kidney, heart, lung, liver, pancreas, small intestine
Permitting the death of a patient by withholding treatments is called _________ ____________.
For example, discontinuing tube feedings on patient
Passive euthanasia
This directs an agent to make health care decisions, it can be executed by anyone and does not extend beyond health care issues.
Durable Power of Attorney
What is the focus of palliative care?
Alleviation of symptoms, relief from symptoms
Dying patient has feelings of overwhelming loneliness and withdrawal from relationships.
What stage of Dying is this?
Depression
To assist with facing reality of pediatric death, parents should be encouraged to:
See, touch, and hold the infant so they can face reality of the situation and resolve their grief
Document that provides guidance to the family concerning the patient's final wishes regrading life-support measures
Advance Directive
What medication relaxes the patients respiratory effort, but also increases the efficiency of respiratory status?
Morphine
To be on hospice services, a physician must certify that a patient has a life expectancy of few than ___ months.
6 months
Individual acts as though nothing has happened and may refuse to believe or understand loss has occurred.
Denial