Palliative Care Tests Bundle Set

AIDS infection CORRECT ANSWER Bacterial, Viral, Fungal, Parasitic AIDS dementia CORRECT ANSWER causes Encephalopathy, 15% effected ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) 1st symptom CORRECT ANSWER swallowing difficulty followed by distal weakness Cerebral Metastases CORRECT ANSWER Brain mets a...

xerostomia CORRECT ANSWER Dry mouth syndrome, leads to decreased swallowing ability, increased dental caries, gum, tongue and oral lesions, infections, bad breath, changes in taste and alterations in speech and voice functions. Social decline pyschosocial complication. xerostomia non-pharmacologi...

1.Compare different practice models for home-based services. CORRECT ANSWER 1.Summarize the basic roles and responsibilities of home health and hospice nurses. CORRECT ANSWER 1.Explain the professional standards and educational requirements for nurses in home health and hospice. CORRECT ANSW...

What is Palliative Care CORRECT ANSWER Palliative care is about caring for people who have an illness that is not responsive to curative treatment. The focus is not to cure but to 'palliate'- to relieve symptoms so as to keep the person with the illness comfortable. Involves grief and bereavemen...

Kubler Ross CORRECT ANSWER Stages of death - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. assisted in bringing the hospice movement to the United States. critique: deficiencies in the overall concept and several reactions to dying are seen in clinical practice but are not included in t...

An 80-year-old patient is receiving palliative care for heart failure. What are the primary purposes of her receiving palliative care (select all that apply)? A. Improve her quality of life. B. Assess her coping ability with disease. C. Have time to teach patient and family about disease. D. Foc...

What is the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC)? CORRECT ANSWER A national education initiative sponsored by AACN to improve palliative care What patient populations do the ELNEC focus on? CORRECT ANSWER VA and geriatrics What is palliative care? CORRECT ANSWER Comprehensive care ...

T/F: Palliative care is same as hospice care CORRECT ANSWER False; palliative care is an ASPECT of hospice care The major difference between palliative care and hospice care is: CORRECT ANSWER Palliative care allows a person to simultaneously receive *curative and palliative treatments.* Hosp...

WHO Palliative care definition CORRECT ANSWER an approach which improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing life threatening illness, through the prevention, assessment and treatment of pain and other physical, psycho-social and spiritual problems AMA Palliative care defini...

A competent older adult patient has a living will that expresses the patient's desire to avoid resuscitation and heroic life support measures. The patient's family, however, is not supportive of this directive and plans to contest the living will. Which nursing action is appropriate based on the c...

Palliative Care CORRECT ANSWER -Affirms life: Palliative care sustains the quality of life throughout sickness, helping patients cope with the struggles of disease. -Promotes Quality of life: Palliative care helps patients manage the symptoms of their disease and allows them to continue with thei...

Terminology CORRECT ANSWER - Palliative Care: refers to a philosophy of care (also sometimes referred to as hospice palliative care or supportive care) - Hospice palliative care: gages individuals and families in the planning - end- of life care - supportive care - hospice/residential hospice:...

What is an Advanced Care Plan? CORRECT ANSWER Mentally competent adult canadians have the right to make decisions regarding their health care, including the right to refuse or request life-sustaining care This decision making process is referred to as advanced care planning Aimed at improving heal...

A nurse is providing palliative care for a client who-stage lung cancer and is dyspneic. Which of the following actions should the nurse take? A. Administer haloperidol 0.5 mg sublingual. B. Ask the client how he is feeling. C. Place the client in the supine position. D. Apply supplemental ox...