Measures taken to anticipate challenges that the patient and family will face because of illness, medical treatment, and other concerns.
What is advance care planning?
100
an irreversible form of unconsciousness characterized by a complete loss of brain function while the heart continues to beat
What is brain death?
100
a lay term for statements that give instructions about future treatment if a patient is unable to do so for himself or herself
What is a living will?
100
grieving based on the perception of potential loss
What is anticipatory grief?
100
an individual's response to the loss of a significant person
What is bereavement?
200
care provided by caregivers who are knowledgeable about personal issues and attitudes that affect the end-of-life experience for patients and their family experiencing the inevitability of death
What is end-of-life care?
200
the irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory function or the irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem
What is death?
200
a term used to describe a document designating the person or persons who should make health care decisions if a patient cannot make informed decisions for himself or herself
What is a durable power of attorney for health care?
200
chronic grief that does not decrease after the first year
What is pathologic grief?
200
an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by alternating periods of apnea and deep, rapid breathing
What are Cheyne-Stokes respirations?
300
health care aimed at symptom management rather than curative treatment for diseases that no longer respond to treatment
What is palliative care?
300
a sound produced by air moving through mucus that has accumulated in the throat of a dying person who has lost the cough reflex
What is a death rattle?
300
a written document to a health care provider stating a patient's wish to be allowed to die without heroic or extraordinary measure
What is a directive to health care providers?
300
unresolved ambivalent feelings toward the deceased
What is conflicted grief?
300
a written physician's order instructing health care providers not to attempt CPR; often requested by family: must be signed by a physician to be valid
What is a DNR (do not resuscitate) order?
400
a system of family-centered care designed to assist the terminally ill person to be comfortable and to maintain a satisfactory life-style through the phases of dying
What is hospice?
400
no life sustaining measures or extraordinary measures,comfort care
What is a DNRCC(do not resuscitate comfort care)?
400
specific state laws that include a variety of directives related to an individual's wishes regarding medical treatment and prolongation of life
What are Natural Death Acts?
400
a type of grief that helps in the acceptance of the reality of death
What is adaptive grief?
400
the number of months left until graduation
What is 13 months?
500
the instructor/ray of sunshine that gave the "Care of the dying and grief" lecture
Who is Jane Winters?
500
only initiate "do not resuscitate" when arrest occurs, may have other treatment options
What is DNRCC-Arrest( Do not resuscitate comfort care-arrest)?
500
written statements of a person's wishes if he or she is unable to communicate these wishes
What are advanced directives?
500
the appearance of coping and carrying on as though nothing has happened
What is the absent grief?
500
a nearly universal pattern of physical and emotional responses to bereavement, separation, or loss