Exam 16: Palliative Care

Hospice benefits include which of the following? (Select all that apply.)

The patient is being admitted to the hospital for injuries received when a hurricane destroyed her home.She is upset from the loss of her home and possessions.This type of loss is considered a:

A new staff member is working with a patient who is dying.A nurse evaluates that this new employee requires additional teaching when he or she is observed:

An appropriate technique for the nurse to implement when caring for a client's body after death is to:

The nurse recognizes that anticipatory grieving can be most beneficial for a patient or family because it can:

The patient was a practicing Hindu when he died.Knowing this,the nurse realizes that:

_____________ helps people live as well as possible through the dying process.

A nurse-initiated or independent activity for promotion of respiratory function in a terminally ill patient is to:

A patient has been diagnosed with terminal cancer of the liver and is receiving chemotherapy on a medical unit.In an in-depth conversation with the nurse,the patient states,"I wonder why this happened to me." According to Kübler-Ross,the nurse identifies that this stage is associated with:

The patient was brought into the Emergency Department as a cardiac arrest after suffering multiple gunshot wounds.The patient did not survive even after multiple attempts at resuscitation.The nurse is preparing the body for transport to the morgue utilizing hospital procedures for __________________.

After the patient dies,and before other activities are begun,the nurse should:

A person experiences an actual _________ when an object or a person can no longer be felt,heard,or experienced.

___________________specify medical interventions that the patient does not want in certain situations,such as mechanical ventilation,and are used to communicate the care a patient wants,for example,pain relief to the fullest extent possible.

The patient is on a ventilator and has a heartbeat but has been declared "brain dead." The family has agreed to organ donation.The nurse realizes that which of the following organ donations would require that the patient be left on life support?

Nurses provide _______________ that is defined as care of the body after death in a manner consistent with the patient's religious and cultural beliefs.

The nurse is preparing to assist the patient in the end stage of her life.To provide comfort for the patient in response to anticipated symptom development,the nurse plans to:

The nurse is using Bowlby's phases of mourning as a framework for assessing the client's response to the traumatic loss of her leg.During the "yearning and searching" phase,the nurse anticipates that the patient may respond by:

The World Health Organization (2002)defines ___________ as an "approach that improves the quality of life of individuals and their families facing life-threatening illness,through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other physical,psychological and spiritual problems."

Hospice care can be provided in which of the following settings? (Select all that apply.)

An _______________ is the surgical dissection of a body after death.