Purpose
Terminally Ill Patients
Who receives hospice care?
London, England
Where was the first hospice?
A service location where a hospice patient is experiencing severe symptoms of vomiting, dyspnea, and pain.
What is inpatient hospice care?
An awareness context where everyone is aware and talks freely about the terminal state of the patient.
What is open awareness?
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance
What are the stages of grief by Kubler-Ross?
Members include PT, OT, speech therapist, MD, nurses, nurse aides, social worker, pastoral care, and volunteers.
What is an interdisciplinary team?
St Christopher's Hospice
What was the name of the first hospice?
Nursing homes, hospitals, or patient homes
Where can you receive hospice care? (3 locations)
The most common service offered to the families of hospice patients.
What is Grief Support?
Individual, family, group, and cultural expressions of grief and associated behaviors.
What is mourning?
Make the patients comfortable in their deaths.
What does hospice aim to do?
New Haven, Connecticut
Where was the first hospice in the United States?
A doctor's certification (proving death sentence)
What is required before a patient may be accepted into hospice care center?
The cessation of respiratory and circulatory functions.
How death is defined?
Period of time during which mourning for a loss takes place.
What is bereavement?
Physicians' reluctance to refer to hospice
What is a barrier of improving End-of-Life Care?
Opened the first hospice in the United States
What did Florence Wald do?
Service is provided when the patient's condition is acute and death is near.
What is continuous home care?
An awareness context in which the family and doctor are aware of the diagnosis, but the patient is not.
What is Closed awareness?
One of the stages of grief in Kubler-Ross's model is when a patient attempts to negotiate a way out of the grief, often with a higher power.
What is bargaining?
To improve the quality of life for a dying patient.
What is the main purpose of Hospice?
Dame Cicely Saunders
Who invented hospice?
A 5-day inpatient stay to relieve family caregivers.
What is respite care?
The dusky color changes can be lessened for the dead patient.
What does raising the head 30 degrees after death?
A stage of grief from Kubler-Ross in which a patient comes to terms with the loss and finds a way to move forward.
What is acceptance?