ELNEC Palliative Care Nursing Exam Questions and Answers
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Palliative Care Nursing
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Palliative Care Nursing
Palliative Care - Patient- and family-centered care that optimizes quality of life by anticipating,
preventing, and treating suffering.
Hospice - a team approach to providing care to people with life threatening illness or injuries
Continuum of care - a model which shows healthcare given to a pa...
ELNEC Palliative Care Nursing Exam Questions and Answe rs Palliative Care - ✔✔ Patient - and family -centered care that optimizes quality of life by anticipating, preventing, and treating suffering. Hospice - ✔✔ a team approach to providing care to people with life threatening illness or injuries Continuum of care - ✔✔ a model which shows healthcare given to a patient in a span of time Empathi zing - ✔✔ a communication technique which nurses use to understand or relate to seriously ill patients SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation) - ✔✔ an effective way to communicate shared expectations with healthcare teams Non -verbal commun ication - ✔✔ Communicating without the use of words includes apparent behaviors such as facial expressions, gestures, body language, presence, tone of voice, and mannerisms Addiction - ✔✔ a primary, chronic, neurobiological disease with genetic, psychosocia l, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations Tolerance - ✔✔ a state of adaptation in which exposure to a drug induces changes that result in diminution of one or more of the drug's effects over time Nociceptive - ✔✔ the pain occurs due to damage to bones, soft tissue, or internal organs Dyspnea - ✔✔ a subjective experience of breathing discomfort, difficult or labored breathing; commonly called shortness of breath Anorexia - ✔✔ the reduced or complete loss of desire to eat or a loss of appetite associated with a decrease in food intake Cachexia - ✔✔ a condition where a patient loses substantial body weight and muscle mass in a short period of time due to a chronic illness Bereavement - ✔✔ state of being deprived of something valuable or beloved; state of being bereaved or bereft; provides dispensation f rom usual activities for a variable period of time Mourning - ✔✔ the social expression of sorrow for a loss Grief - ✔✔ the emotional response to a loss Loss - ✔✔ the absence of a possession or future possession Delirium - ✔✔ a disturbance in attention and awareness characterized by a fluctuation in severity Terminal secretions - ✔✔ a distressing and frightening symptom for those involved in the patient's terminal care. Is also known as the "death rattle". the death vigil - ✔✔ a quiet gathering, usually spen t by the family with the patient before death, especially to keep watch or to pray. Which of the following statements is true about serious, chronic illnesses - ✔✔ The majority of annual U.S. healthcare spending goes toward on chronic illnesses. What shou ld drive decision -making in palliative care - ✔✔ The patient's goals of care Mr. Rodriquez tells you that he is very frightened by not knowing what happens after death. Which domain of quality of life is being affected by his serious illness? - ✔✔ Spiritual
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