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100
Is a chronic, progressive respiratory disease that makes it hard to breathe.
What is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
100
Allows you to appoint a health care agent and/or prepare instructions for health care in the event that you become incapacitated.
What is the Advance Health Care Directive (AHCD)?
100
A popular mnemonic referring to an emergency procedure, performed in an effort to manually preserve intact brain function until further measures are taken to restore spontaneous blood circulation and breathing in a person in cardiac arrest.
What is CPR?
100
Assists patients and families to plan for patient discharge from the hospital environment and transition to the next care setting.
What is Case Management?
100
Serves patients who are homebound at any age who desire to return home after hospitalization.
What is Home Health Care?
200
Known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a broad group of various diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth.
What is Cancer?
200
Allows someone to act on your behalf in specific situations that will survive the incapacity of the grantor.
What is Durable Power of Attorney?
200
The insertion of a tube into the patient's airway to protect the airway from collapsing.
What is intubation?
200
Provides skilled nursing and rehab services provided by nurses, therapists, and personal care assistants with activities of daily living.
What is Home Health?
200
Serves all hospitalized patients with complex care needs.
What is Case Management?
300
Occurs when the heart is unable to provide sufficient pump action to distribute blood flow to meet the needs of the body.
What is Congestive Heart Failure?
300
Three different names for essentially the same document that allows you to designate someone to make healthcare decisions for you if you become incapacitated.
What is Advance Directive, Living Will, and Healthcare Power of Attorney.
300
A temporary device inserted through the nose or stomach in order to provide nutrition for someone who can not swallow.
What is a feeding tube?
300
Provides supportive nursing care with an emphasis on spiritual and emotional support for patients and their families at the end of life.
What is Comfort Care?
300
Serves actively dying patients who are currently hospitalized.
What is Comfort Care?
400
Occurs when the heart is unable to provide sufficient pump action to distribute blood flow to meet the needs of the body.
What is Congestive Heart Failure?
400
A bright pink legal document that clearly states what kinds of medical treatment patients want toward the end of their lives.
What is a POLST?
400
The process of supplying all the nutritional needs of the body by bypassing the digestive system and dripping nutrient solution directly into a vein.
What is Total Parenteral Nutrition or TPN?
400
Provides skilled nursing and team oriented approach to provide medical, personal, spiritual, emotional support for both the patient and the family where the patient faces the last stages of a terminal illness or disease.
What is Hospice Care?
400
Serves patients of any age who have a terminal diagnosis of 6 months or less.
What is Hospice Care?
500
A progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord.
What is ALS or Lou Gehrigs' Disease?
500
A popular mnemonic that reflects the patients request not to be resuscitated or intubated.
What is DNR/DNI?
500
A surgical construction of an opening in the trachea for the insertion of a catheter or a tube to facilitate breathing.
What is a trach or a tracheostomy?
500
Provides comprehensive and coordinated pain and symptom management, care of emotional, spiritual needs, family support and assistance in making transitions between care setting with advance care planning.
What is Palliative Care?
500
Serves patients of any age, at any stage of advanced and life-threatening illness.
What is Palliative Care?
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