ELNEC Palliative Care Nursing UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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ELNEC Palliative Care Nursing
ELNEC Palliative Care Nursing UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Palliative Care - CORRECT ANSWER- Patient- and family-centered care that optimizes
quality of life by anticipating, preventing, and treating suffering.
Hospice - CORRECT ANSWER- a team approach to providing care...
ELNEC Palliative Care Nursing UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Palliative Care - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Patient- and family-centered care that optimizes
quality of life by anticipating, preventing, and treating suffering.
Hospice - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a team approach to providing care to people with life
threatening illness or injuries
Continuum of care - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a model which shows healthcare given to a
patient in a span of time
Empathizing - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a communication technique which nurses use to
understand or relate to seriously ill patients
SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation) - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔an effective way to communicate shared expectations with healthcare teams
Non-verbal communication - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Communicating without the use of
words includes apparent behaviors such as facial expressions, gestures, body language,
presence, tone of voice, and mannerisms
Addiction - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a primary, chronic, neurobiological disease with
genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and
manifestations
Tolerance - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔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 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔the pain occurs due to damage to bones, soft tissue,
or internal organs
, Dyspnea - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a subjective experience of breathing discomfort,
difficult or labored breathing; commonly called shortness of breath
Anorexia - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔the reduced or complete loss of desire to eat or a loss
of appetite associated with a decrease in food intake
Cachexia - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a condition where a patient loses substantial body
weight and muscle mass in a short period of time due to a chronic illness
Bereavement - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔state of being deprived of something valuable or
beloved; state of being bereaved or bereft; provides dispensation from usual activities for a
variable period of time
Mourning - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔the social expression of sorrow for a loss
Grief - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔the emotional response to a loss
Loss - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔the absence of a possession or future possession
Delirium - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a disturbance in attention and awareness characterized
by a fluctuation in severity
Terminal secretions - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a distressing and frightening symptom for
those involved in the patient's terminal care. Is also known as the "death rattle".
the death vigil - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a quiet gathering, usually spent 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 - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔The majority of annual U.S. healthcare spending goes toward on chronic
illnesses.
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