Family in Acute Care
End of Life Documents
Teaching & Motivation
Trauma & The Brain
100

What are common emotions families experience in an acute care setting?

What are stress, feeling alone, chaos, and loss of control?

100

A request not to have CPR

What is a DNR?

100

What should nurses reflect on regarding their own beliefs?

What is how their personal values influence care?

100

Without this function fear extinction or resolution can’t happen

What is prefrontal cortex?

200

What do families desire most from nurses in acute settings?

What is an authentic connection with the nurse?

200

a legal document that designates an individual to act as a health care proxy or agent to make medical decisions in the event that a person cannot communicate

What is a durable power of attorney?

200

What type of strategies help families meet health goals?

What are evidence based teaching and motivational strategies?

200

Prolonged trauma causes hyperactive stress response

What is amygdala?

300

Who first identified family needs in acute care in 1979?

Who is Molter?

300

A legal document that specifically outlines medical treatments and interventions that the person does or does not want administered when the person is terminally ill or in a coma.

What is a living will?

300

Motivational strategies help support what aspect of health?

What is health promotion and maintenance?

300

Prolonged or severe trauma interferes with this resulting in feelings of inadequacy and doubt.

What is hippocampus?

400

Name one intervention nurses can use to support families in acute care.

What is providing clear communication or involving family in care decisions?

400

Specifies instructions and medical care preferences regarding interventions or medical treatments. It typically includes the name of the POA.

What is an advance directive?

400

Why is it important to tailor teaching to the family?

What is because families have unique values and needs?

400

Fear of intimacy, strong need to control, fear of death and illness, rage, depression, and addiction are symptoms 

What is prolonged trauma in childhood?

500

How do you describe renal support services, blood products, and artificial nutrition and hydration.

What is life sustaining therapies?

500

A form that states what kind of medical treatment patients want toward the end of life

What is a POLST? Physician orders for life sustaining treatments

500

Name one example of a motivational strategy.

What is goal-setting or using positive reinforcement?

500

List the Neuroaffective Relational Model Five Core Needs

What is connection, attunement, trust, boundaries, deep sense of love and sexuality?