CHPLN EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
Hospice Care - ....ANSWER ...-Care focuses on a person's last six months of life
of less. When curative treatment is no longer an option, hospice professionals work to
make the patient's life as comfortable as possible.
Palliative Care - ....ANSWER ...-Care designed not to treat an illness but to provide
physical and emotional comfort to the patient and support and guidance to his or her
family. Does not require a 6 month diagnosis
Core IDT - ....ANSWER ...-Nurse
Psychosocial Professionals - social workers
Counselor- Chaplin, Bereavement, Counselor or Dietitian
Physician
Hospice Levels of Care - ....ANSWER ...-- routine (home) care
•Days 1-60
•Days 61+
- respite care
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, - inpatient hospice care
- crisis or continuous care
Hypercapnia - ....ANSWER ...-the abnormal buildup of carbon dioxide in the
blood
Exsanguinate - ....ANSWER ...-to drain of blood
R. A. A. S - ....ANSWER ...-Activated by the kidneys when patient is in heart
failure.
Neuralgia - ....ANSWER ...-nerve pain
first hospice in the US - ....ANSWER ...-New Haven, CT in 1960's - Florence Wald
Multi-disciplinary team - ....ANSWER ...-More hospital based
Uremia - ....ANSWER ...-urine in the blood
Mycolonus - ....ANSWER ...-Movement disorder, facial or multi focal, sudden,
brief, shock-like, involuntary movements - jerks, twitching, brief spasms of muscles.
Assessing/Reassessing - ....ANSWER ...-Usually the correct answer
Akathisia - ....ANSWER ...-intense need to move about; characterized by restless
movement, pacing, inability to remain still, and the client's report of inner restlessness
Dystonia - ....ANSWER ...-a condition of abnormal muscle tone that causes the
impairment of voluntary muscle movement
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AND ANSWERS
Hospice Care - ....ANSWER ...-Care focuses on a person's last six months of life
of less. When curative treatment is no longer an option, hospice professionals work to
make the patient's life as comfortable as possible.
Palliative Care - ....ANSWER ...-Care designed not to treat an illness but to provide
physical and emotional comfort to the patient and support and guidance to his or her
family. Does not require a 6 month diagnosis
Core IDT - ....ANSWER ...-Nurse
Psychosocial Professionals - social workers
Counselor- Chaplin, Bereavement, Counselor or Dietitian
Physician
Hospice Levels of Care - ....ANSWER ...-- routine (home) care
•Days 1-60
•Days 61+
- respite care
...©️ 2025, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1
, - inpatient hospice care
- crisis or continuous care
Hypercapnia - ....ANSWER ...-the abnormal buildup of carbon dioxide in the
blood
Exsanguinate - ....ANSWER ...-to drain of blood
R. A. A. S - ....ANSWER ...-Activated by the kidneys when patient is in heart
failure.
Neuralgia - ....ANSWER ...-nerve pain
first hospice in the US - ....ANSWER ...-New Haven, CT in 1960's - Florence Wald
Multi-disciplinary team - ....ANSWER ...-More hospital based
Uremia - ....ANSWER ...-urine in the blood
Mycolonus - ....ANSWER ...-Movement disorder, facial or multi focal, sudden,
brief, shock-like, involuntary movements - jerks, twitching, brief spasms of muscles.
Assessing/Reassessing - ....ANSWER ...-Usually the correct answer
Akathisia - ....ANSWER ...-intense need to move about; characterized by restless
movement, pacing, inability to remain still, and the client's report of inner restlessness
Dystonia - ....ANSWER ...-a condition of abnormal muscle tone that causes the
impairment of voluntary muscle movement
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