Palliative/Hospice Care
This type of care focuses on improving quality of life for patients with serious illnesses by managing symptoms and providing emotional support.
What is Palliative Care?
This scale asks patients to rate their pain from 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst pain).
What is the Numeric Rating Scale?
When a patient’s family insists on specific post-death rituals, this is what the nurse should do.
What is allow them to and offer resources if needed?
This ethical principle guides nurses to balance honesty with compassion when discussing prognosis with families.
What is beneficence?
Meditation and religious practices fall under this category of self-care.
What is spiritual self-care?
Palliative care provides this kind of care that addresses the whole person, including physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
What is Holistic Care?
Managing this is a key support measure in palliative care to help patients feel comfortable.
What is pain?
Nurses perform this to learn about a patient’s traditions, rituals, and preferences related to illness and death.
What is a cultural assessment?
Nurses assess caregivers for this, which can affect their ability to provide care.
What is fatigue or caregiver burnout?
Poor self-care can disrupt this, causing gaps in patient treatment and follow-up.
What is continuity of care?
Palliative care can be given at the same time as this.
What is curative treatment or medical treatment?
Nurses adjust this based on how the patient responds to treatment.
What is the pain management plan or care plan?
The ultimate goal of addressing spirituality in nursing care is to provide this for the patient.
What is peace and comfort?
This type of grief is anticipated as families prepare for the patient’s decline.
What is anticipatory grief?
Without self-care, nurses risk this kind of exhaustion that includes symptoms like emotional numbness and decreased empathy.
What is compassion fatigue?
Hospice care is designed for patients who have this expected life expectancy.
What is six months or less?
Nurses ask about these four key aspects to understand a patient’s pain better.
What are location, intensity, duration, and quality?
This term describes a nurse’s ability to understand and respect a patient’s cultural beliefs and practices.
What is cultural competence?
Nurses facilitate this between patients, families, and healthcare providers about condition, prognosis, and care plans.
What is communication?
Working more than this many hours per week was linked to a higher risk of nurse burnout.
What is 20 hours?
This ethical principle in hospice care requires nurses to honor a patient’s right to refuse treatment, even if it may hasten death, while still providing compassionate symptom management.
What is patient autonomy?
When a patient’s verbal report of pain conflicts with their nonverbal cues, this nursing approach helps ensure accurate pain assessment and effective management.
What is using a comprehensive, multimodal pain assessment combining self-report, observation, and clinical judgment?
This nursing skill involves recognizing and responding to spiritual distress, which may manifest as anger, anxiety, or loss of meaning in seriously ill patients.
What is spiritual assessment or spiritual care intervention?
A caregiver shows signs of severe fatigue and emotional distress; the nurse’s ethical responsibility includes this action to ensure patient and caregiver well-being.
What is assessing caregiver capacity and facilitating access to respite or support services?
According to Shah et al. (2021), this percentage of nurses who left their jobs in 2018 cited burnout as the reason.
What is 31.5%?