Hospice Regulations
Hourly payment in addition to the daily rate in the last seven days of life
What is Service Intensity Add On?
The woman credited with founding hospice care
Who is Dame Cicely Saunders?
Four ways to take a temperature
What are tympanic, oral, rectal and axillary?
Complete or partial collapse of a lung or lobe
What is atelectasis?
O+
What blood type is a universal donor?
Two disciplines that can be part of the SIA
Who are the RN and Social Worker?
The university in the United States where Dame Saunders first lectured about end of life care.
What is Yale?
Apical, Radial, Pedal
What are three ways to take a pulse?
The scale that helps determine the stages of pressure ulcers
What is the Braden Scale?
Circular round blood cell
What is a healthy red blood cell?
Days in the twelfth benefit period
What is 60?
In 1969 Laurel was born, but also this author wrote On Death and Dying.
Who is Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross?
Rapid rate of breathing
What is tachypnea?
Three D words describe cognitive impairment.
What are Depression, Dementia, and Delirium?
Complete Blood Count
What is a CBC?
The role the chaplain serves as core services at the IDG
What is counselor?
The year that Congress included hospice payment under the Medicare benefit.
What is 1982?
The time it takes for the color to return to an external capillary bed after pressure is applied
What is capillary refill?
Found in bananas, spinach and sweet potatoes
What is potassium?
Normal range of 11-13 seconds
What is Prothrombin Time (PT)?
The quality assurance reports shall be reviewed by the hospice administrator and this group according to regulations.
What is the governing body?
In 2007 research published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management reports that hospice patients live an average of this amount of days longer than similar patients who did not have hospice care.
What is 29?
The normal respiratory rate for adults
What is 12-20 breaths per minute?
Abundant cation, maintains water balance
What is Sodium?
Two blood tests normally run to look at renal function.
What is Creatinine and Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN)?