DOULA EXAM STUDY TEST QUESTIONS & 100%
CORRECT SOLUTIONS-VERIFIED ANSWERS
WHO definition of hospice palliative care - ✔✔an approach that improves the quality
of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening
illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification
and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical,
psychosocial, and spiritual
Hospice Palliative Care Ontario definition of hospice palliative care - ✔✔holistic care -
comfort, meaning and support for people facing the end of life, and their families ->
broader def, idea that anyone with life limiting or threatening illness and provide
general care for them
History of hospice palliative care - ✔✔• We have always cared for our dying loved
ones
• A residential hospice was started in the 60's in
England
• The concept traveled to Canada in the 70's
• First palliative care units opened in 1974 in
Winnipeg and Montreal
• The Canadian Palliative Care Association was
established in 1991
• In 2002 the CHPCA published "A Model to Guide
Hospice Palliative Care: Based on the National Principles and Norms of Practice" -> code
of conduct and principles -> NOT THAT LONG AGO
, What does palliative care involve(3 most important) - ✔✔• Is compassionate, and
upholds the patient's right to die with dignity
• Provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms
• Affirms life and regards dying as a normal process
What does palliative care involve (the non most 3 important) - ✔✔• Intends neither
to hasten or postpone death
• Integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of patient
care
• Offers a support system to help patients live as actively as
possible until death
• Offers a support system to help the loved ones cope during
the patient's illness and in their own bereavement
• Uses a team approach to address the needs of patients and
their loved ones, including bereavement counselling, if
indicated
• Will enhance quality of life, and may also positively influence
the course of illness
• Is applicable early in the course of illness, in conjunction with
other therapies intended to prolong life, and includes those investigations needed to
better understand and manage distressing clinical complications
Common misconception of palliative care
Counter this misconception - ✔✔That it hastens death + is not available to everyone
It actually prolongs life by improving QOL, and is not designed to postpone death but
focused on QOL and comfort
It is available to everyone ex. cancer patients that isn't life threatening, all ages, etc
CORRECT SOLUTIONS-VERIFIED ANSWERS
WHO definition of hospice palliative care - ✔✔an approach that improves the quality
of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening
illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification
and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical,
psychosocial, and spiritual
Hospice Palliative Care Ontario definition of hospice palliative care - ✔✔holistic care -
comfort, meaning and support for people facing the end of life, and their families ->
broader def, idea that anyone with life limiting or threatening illness and provide
general care for them
History of hospice palliative care - ✔✔• We have always cared for our dying loved
ones
• A residential hospice was started in the 60's in
England
• The concept traveled to Canada in the 70's
• First palliative care units opened in 1974 in
Winnipeg and Montreal
• The Canadian Palliative Care Association was
established in 1991
• In 2002 the CHPCA published "A Model to Guide
Hospice Palliative Care: Based on the National Principles and Norms of Practice" -> code
of conduct and principles -> NOT THAT LONG AGO
, What does palliative care involve(3 most important) - ✔✔• Is compassionate, and
upholds the patient's right to die with dignity
• Provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms
• Affirms life and regards dying as a normal process
What does palliative care involve (the non most 3 important) - ✔✔• Intends neither
to hasten or postpone death
• Integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of patient
care
• Offers a support system to help patients live as actively as
possible until death
• Offers a support system to help the loved ones cope during
the patient's illness and in their own bereavement
• Uses a team approach to address the needs of patients and
their loved ones, including bereavement counselling, if
indicated
• Will enhance quality of life, and may also positively influence
the course of illness
• Is applicable early in the course of illness, in conjunction with
other therapies intended to prolong life, and includes those investigations needed to
better understand and manage distressing clinical complications
Common misconception of palliative care
Counter this misconception - ✔✔That it hastens death + is not available to everyone
It actually prolongs life by improving QOL, and is not designed to postpone death but
focused on QOL and comfort
It is available to everyone ex. cancer patients that isn't life threatening, all ages, etc
