Exam 17: Palliative Care

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:

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

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

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

Before allowing the family of a deceased patient to view the body,the nurse should:

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?

___________________ 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.

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

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

After the death of a patient and before other nursing interventions are implemented,the nurse should:

The patient has a history of terminal cancer but is being admitted for treatment of a pressure ulcer.The patient's wife has been caring for him at home and refuses to discuss admission to a nursing home.The wife looks extremely tired and is near the point of exhaustion.What could the nurse suggest?

For a patient in the final stages of dying,a nurse expects to:

When caring for a patient who is an appropriate candidate for organ or tissue donation,the nurse knows that requests for donation are:

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

_______________ grief (symptoms lasting longer than 6 months)occurs when a person experiences significant distress related to the loss.

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

Grief that occurs before an actual loss or death and involves gradual disengagement from what is being lost is known as which type of grief?

The irreversible absence of all brain function is termed ______________.

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