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palliative care nursing 332exam 1 fully solved & updated
2025-2026(100% accuracy)
nurses play a major role in caring for seriously ill patients and their
families - answer - elicit goals of care
- assess, manage and coordinate care
- listening to patients and family members
- bearing witness
- communicating with all members of the interprofessional team
- being knowledgeable in evidence-based practice
we live in a - answer death-denying society
top 5 leading causes of death - answer 1) heart disease
2) cancer
3) chronic lower respiratory disease
4) unintentional injuries
5) cerebrovascular diseases
serious illness in america & its impact on care: - answer - exploding
healthcare costs
- poor understanding of prognosis
- failure to treat pain and other symptoms
- increased use of technology
what constitutes quality care at the end-of-life? - answer for healthcare
teams: providing symptom management and discussing the emotional
aspects of the disease
, for patients: achieving a sense of control, attaining spiritual peace,
succeeding in having finance in order, strengthening relationships with
loved ones, and believing that their life has meaning
disease/dying trajectories - answer sudden, unexpected death: heart
attack or car accident
steady decline, short terminal phase: pancreatic cancer
slow decline, periodic crises, death: chronic illness: COPD, AIDS,
congestive heart failure
lingering, expected death: older adult declining with no specific acute
cause of death
caregivers - answer most adults prefer to die at home, generally requiring
the family to provide support, the cost of uncompensated care = $450
billion per year
veterans - answer 121,000 veterans are without shelter or healthcare,
hence no access to hospice or palliative care, as nurses we must help
orchestrate care in a variety of clinical and non clinical settings for
veterans.
hospice - answer a team approach to provide care to people with life
threatening illness or injury, and supports the dignity of life. it supports
the patient through the dying process, and the surviving family through
the dying and the bereavement process. it provides comprehensive
medical and supportive services across a variety of settings and is based
on the idea that dying is apart of the normal life cycle. it provides care in
the home, in residential facilities, hospitals, nursing facilities, and other
settings such as prisons. hospice cares for the terminally ill with a
prognosis of 6 months or less. it is a benefit under medicare and medicaid.
palliative care - answer for any patient with a life-threatening illness that
wishes to continue to seek life prolonging, curative treatments. can start
it in the hospital and can continue in the home, nursing home, or skilled
nursing facility. means patient and family-centered care that optimizes
quality of life by anticipating, preventing, and treating suffering. involves
addressing physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual needs
and to facilitate patient autonomy, access to information and choice.
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