Key Terms
Cessation of life
Death
Individual resists the loss and may strike out at everyone and everything.
Anger
This age believes death is reversible. They do not understand the concept of death.
Age Range
Infancy to 5 year
This gives a person the ability to make decisions for the incapacitated person?f
Durable Power of Attorney
What medication relaxes the patient's respiratory effort, thus increasing the efficiency of the respiratory status?
Morphine
When any aspect of self is no longer available to a person, that person suffers a what?
loss
An individual accepts the loss and looks to the future.
Acceptance
Associates death with aggression or violence, understands that death is final.
Age range
5 to 9 years
Permitting death of a patient by withholding treatment that might extend life, such as tube feeds, medications, or life support systems
Passive Euthanasia
What is the most common side effect with use of narcotics in the dying patient?
Constipation
A common depressed reaction to the death of a loved one.
Bereavement
individual acts as though nothing has happened and may refuse to believe or understand loss has occurred.
Denial
Goal of this care is allow patients to make more informed choices, achieve better alleviation of symptoms, and have more opportunity to work on issues of life closure.
Palliative Care
Advance Directives
This term means after death
Postmortem
The study of dying and death
Thanatology
Individual feels overwhelming lonely and begins to withdraw from interpersonal interaction.
Depression
Hospice can be initiated when what type of treatment is no longer effective?
Curative
Give one example where a coroner is required to investigate a death.
Deaths from an injury, suspected suicides, Deaths of persons not under the care of a physician
This is the stiffness of skeletal muscles that occur after death
Rigor mortis
What is the final stage of human growth and development?
Death
Stage in which the person looks for a cause or fixes blame. States "it is all the doctors fault"
Bargaining
A physician must certify that the patient has a life expectancy of fewer than how many months to qualify for hospice?
6 months
Give two examples of vital organs that could be donated & give one example of non-vital tissues that could be donated.
Vital organs: Kidney, heart, lung, liver, pancreas, small intestine
Non-vital tissues: Cornea, long bones, skin, middle ear bones, saphenous and femoral veins, Heart valves
What are the five aspects of human functioning when dealing with the grieving or dying process:
Physical, emotional, intellectual, sociocultural and spiritual