Palliative vs Hospice
Palliative care can be provided at any ____ and any ____ in serious illness.
What are age and stage?
Interdisciplinary care requires a single ____ care plan.
What is integrated?
Terminal illness (like many cancers) often shows a short, steady ____ before death.
What is decline?
Domain managing pain, symptoms, and side effects is Domain ____.
What is Domain 2 (Physical Aspects of Care)?
Best opener to assess understanding: “What is your understanding of your ____?”
What is condition/illness?
Hospice is a type of palliative care focused on ____ at the end of life.
What is comfort?
The “core” of interdisciplinary collaboration is communication and ____.
What is cooperation?
Organ failure commonly has a slow decline with episodic ____ and incomplete recovery.
What are exacerbations/hospitalizations?
Domain assessing distress, coping, conflict, grief resources is Domain ____.
What is Domain 3 (Psychological/Psychiatric)?
Exploratory prompt that invites narrative: “Tell me ____.”
What is more?
A key difference: hospice patients generally choose to forego ____ therapies.
What are disease-directed/curative therapies?
Multidisciplinary care may include multiple clinicians but lacks ____ and ____.
What are coordination and integration?
Frailty/dementia often begins when one is already frail with a slow decline over ____.
What are years?
Domain addressing vulnerabilities like housing/support/transportation is Domain ____.
What is Domain 4 (Social Aspects)?
Values question to guide treatment matching: “What is most ____ to you?”
What is important?
Palliative care is appropriate even while a patient continues ____ therapy.
What is disease-directed/curative therapy?
In a family meeting, the nurse acts as an interpreter when ____ is unclear.
What is medical jargon?
A tool based on ambulation, activity, self-care, intake, and LOC is the ____.
What is the Palliative Performance Scale (PPS)?
Domain focused on meaning, purpose, and existential concerns is Domain ____.
What is Domain 5 (Spiritual/Religious/Existential)?
Coping question that identifies sources of strength: “What gives you ____?”
What is strength/meaning/purpose?
Palliative care may extend into ____ support for families after death.
What is bereavement?
The team aligns care with the patient’s ____ and ____.
What are values and preferences?
In modern patterns of dying, sudden death accounts for the ____ of deaths.
What is minority?
Domain ensuring goals/preferences are respected within law and standards is Domain ____.
What is Domain 8 (Ethical/Legal)?
Family question when patient can’t participate: “Tell me about your ____ one.”
What is loved?