Hospice
To qualify for hospice care, these two doctors must certify that the person is terminally ill with a life expectancy of six months or less.
Who are a hospice doctor and the client's primary doctor?
Besides treatment conflicts with the medical team and the family, what is an additional challenging factor during end-of-life care?
What is include the availability of resources? Or insurance company policies.
This sign of impending death looks like severely wrinkled and purple-bluish color skin and often occurs in dependent areas or lower legs and feet.
What is mottling?
Name the first stage of grief.
What is denial?
This is one thing that hospice covers.
What is medications for pain management? Other correct answers include:
All items and services needed for pain relief and symptom management
Medical, nursing, and social services
Durable medical equipment for pain relief and symptom management
Aide and homemaker services
Physical therapy services
Occupational therapy services
Speech-language pathology services
Social services
Dietary counseling
Spiritual and grief counseling for the client and their family
Short-term inpatient care for pain and symptom management in a Medicare‑approved facility, such as a hospice facility, hospital, or skilled nursing facility that contracts with the hospice agency
Inpatient respite care, which is care provided in a Medicare-approved facility so the usual caregiver (like a family member or friend) can rest.
Other services that Medicare covers to manage pain and other symptoms related to the terminal illness and related conditions the hospice team recommends
A DNR means this.
What is to not perform CPR if a patient’s breathing stops or their heart stops beating?
It is important to explain to the patient what you are doing before you do it and be conscientious of the words being used near the patient because this is the last sense to fail.
What is hearing?
During this stage of grief, individuals are looking to find ways to change or negotiate the outcome by making a deal.
What is bargaining?
If hospice occurs in a patient's home, the hospice agency provides items like these to make caring for the client easier.
What is durable medical equipment like a hospital bed, a commode, shower chair, or mechanical lift?
A health care POA must be two things. Name one of them.
What is of sound mind? Also over the age of 18.
During end-of-life care, interventions should center on two things, name one of them.
What is quality of life? Also correct: comfort measures.
During the depression stage of grief, you should watch for this.
What are signs of self-medicating? Also correct remarks about self-harm.
Name one chronic condition that may lead to hospice care.
What is heart failure? Other possible answers: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cancer, and advanced dementia.
Name one thing that a living will might address.
What is ventilator support? Other possible answers: feeding tube placement, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and intubation.
During postmortem care, this is the type of bath to provide.
What is a bed bath?
Name one-way residents at a long-term care facility can honor the memory of a fellow resident who passed away.
What is to hold a memorial service?