Palliative Care, Hospice, and Physician-Assisted Suicide
Both hospice and palliative care are focused on providing comfort to clients and families during a serious illness. This is the difference between the two. A. There is no difference.
B. Hospice is available to anyone, regardless of life expectancy
C. Palliative care is available to anyone, regardless of life expectancy
What is C. Palliative care is available to anyone, regardless of life expectancy?
What is it called when a caregiver is dedicated to ensuring their patient is comfortable, calm, and well cared for?
A. Compassion
B. Communication
C. Commitment
What is C. Commitment?
Once someone if told that they are close to passing the many refuse to believe it. This would be what stage of grief?
A. Anger
B. Denial
C. Bargaining
What is B Denial?
This represents a person's wishes specific to the condition of a terminal disease or after he or she has been diagnosed and cannot speak for herself or himself.
A. Living will
B. Memoir
C. Facebook
What is A. Living will?
Due to this factor, many individuals are placed in nursing facilities or acute care facilities to die.
A. Lack of family support
B. Lack of close friends
C. Lack of pets
What is A. Lack of family support?
This term is defined by the World Health Organization as "an approach to care which improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing life-threatening illness through the prevention, assessment and treatment of pain and other physical, psychological and spiritual problems."
A. Hospice
B. Palliative Care
C. Physician-Assisted Suicide
What is B. Palliative Care?
This is not an intervention in the 6 C's Approach.
A. Care
B. Community
C. Composure
What is B. Community?
Once people face the possibility of death, they experience ________. This could be directed at family, staff, roommates.
A. Bargaining
B. Depression
C. Anger
What is C. Anger?
This classification of adults can make their Advance Care Directives by stating how they wish to be treated should they at some point in the future lose mental capacity.
A. A mentally competent adult
B. An adult with Alzheimer's
C. A college student suffering from brain damage sustained from a motor vehicle accident
What is A. A mentally competent adult?
A nurse needs to be aware of this when caring for a patient at the end of their life.
A. The patient's language
B. The patient's culture
C. The patient's age
What is B. The patient's culture?
Hospice was designed to relieve suffering of patients nearing death. The timeline of a patient's prognoses is this.
A. One year or less
B. Three months or less
C. Six months or less
What is C. Six months or less?
_______ is treating people with respect, dignity, kindness, and empathy.
A. Compassion
B. Communication
C. Composure
What is A. Compassion?
Mr. Walter accepts that he is going to die, however he is asking God or a higher power to just give him more time. He has a plan to help the homeless in 3 weeks and really wants to follow through. What stage of grief is Mr. Walter experiencing?
A. Bargaining
B. Acceptance
C. Denial
What is A. Bargaining?
The person a patient appoints to speak for them in all matters of healthcare should she or he be unable to do so for themselves.
A. The oldest sibling in the family
B. The nurse
C. A durable power of attorney
What is C. A durable power of attorney?
This service is provided to the primary caregiver of the hospice patient to relieve the burden of caregiving.
A. Local gym membership
B. Caregiver's Anonymous
C. Respite care
What is C. Respite care?
This act allows doctors to prescribe, but not administer, a lethal dose of narcotics to patients who have less than six months of life.
A. The Physician Death Pardon Act
B. The Death with Dignity Act
C. The Lethal Act of Patient's Wish Act
What is B. The Death with Dignity Act?
This is speaking up for what is right and advocating with the patient's best interest in mind.
A. Comitment
B. Courage
C. Compassion
What is A. Courage
Mr. Smith has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, his symptoms start to progress and he becomes weak. He is sad and withdrawn from his family and caregivers. What stage of grief is this?
A. Anger
B. Denial
C. Depression
What is C. Depression?
This is the recommended time in which discussion regarding prognosis and treatment options should occur between the physician and their patient.
A. When the patient is calm and given a "comfortable" amount of morphine
B. Early stages of a life-threatening illness
C. When the durable power of attorney for healthcare is the only available person
What is B. Early stages of a life-threatening illness?
A hospice nurse may feel this form of burnout from intense physical and emotional stress of caring for a hospice patient.
A. Compassion fatigue
B. Patient - nurse impairment
C. Bedside exhaustion
What is A. Compassion fatigue?
This is not considered a goal of hospice care.
A. Promoting comfort
B. Curative measures
C. Increasing quality of life
What is B. Curative measures?
A. Care
B. Commitment
C. Competence
What is C. Competence?
Peace overcomes Mrs. Simpson as she prepares her final wishes. She will miss her family, friends, and pets and will worry about them when she is gone. What stage of grief is this?
A. Depression
B. Acceptance
C. Bargaining
What is B. Acceptance?
This act was recognized as a morally and legally binding document in which adults could express their wishes regarding end of life decisions.
A. The End of Life Decision Act
B. The Patient Wish Act
C. The Patient Self-Determination Act
What is C. The Patient Self-Determination Act?
What is the term for the cooling of the body after death and the decrease in elasticity of the skin?
A. Rigor Mortis
B. Livor Mortis
C. Algor Mortis
What is C. Algor Mortis?