Symptom Management
Grimacing, wincing, restlessness, guarding, moaning, tensing.
What are signs of pain?
DPOA
What is Durable Power of Attorney?
Private homes, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, inpatient centers, hospitals.
What are the places hospice serves patients?
Written document that states in advance a client's desire about the types of healthcare he or she wishes to receive should the client become unable to decide.
What are Advance Directives?
Disenfranchised Grief
What is a type of grief that is not considered by society to be a justified loss?
An unpleasant subjective sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage.... whatever the experiencing person says it is and existing whenever he/she says it does.
What is pain?
CPR
What is Cardiopulmonary resuscitation?
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression
What are stages of grief according to Kubler Ross?
Order to NOT provide resuscitation in the event of cardiopulmonary arrest.
What is a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders?
Grief that occurs when the survivor is not aware of behaviors that interfere with normal functioning as a result of a loss.
What is masked grief?
The 2 most common symptoms morphine is used to treat in hospice patients?
What is pain and shortness of breath?
PHI
MDs, Nurses, HHAs, Volunteers, Chaplains, SWs, Bereavement, etc.
What is the hospice (interdisciplinary) team?
Advance directive that allows a person to designate another to make decisions if the client becomes incapacitated and cannot make independent decisions.
What is Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare?
Oxygen, pain medication, positioning/splinting, mouth care, controlling temperature, emotional support.
What are comfort care measures?
Most common side effect of opioids.
What is constipation?
DNR/DNI
What is Do Not Resuscitate Do Not Intubate?
6 months or less
What is the prognosis a patient has to be eligible for hospice care?
Written evidence of a client's preferences regarding treatment options.
What is a Living Will?
Kubler Ross stage of grief where the patient refuses to acknowledge the truth.
What is denial?
Massage, biofeedback, positioning, distraction, music therapy, and relaxation therapy.
What are non pharmacological treatments?
POC
What is Plan of Care?
GIP, Routine, Respite, Continuous Home Care
What are Hospice Levels of care?
Person required to sign an Ohio DNRCC.
Who is the physician?
Specialized medical and nursing care for those with life limiting illness; offering symptom management for those not eligible for or those not ready for hospice care, or those still receiving curative treatment.
What is palliative care?