Palliative Care Exam questions and answers
Define palliative care. - ✅✅Care to relieve discomfort &/or symptoms
To provide a quality of life for patients and family members through a team oriented, interdisciplinary
approach which reduces pain and other symptoms through management of them; and, through a
patient-specific, emotional and spiritual care support.
Describe the similarities and differences between hospice and palliative care. - ✅✅...
Illustrate how clients are referred to palliative care. - ✅✅...
describe nursing care for clients under palliative care. - ✅✅...
Discuss the role of family with palliative care. - ✅✅...
Describe nursing interventions used for clients who are dying. - ✅✅...
Identify resources available for clients and health care personnel as it relates to palliative care. -
✅✅...
AIM (advanced illness management) is another name for - ✅✅palliative care
A 5-step mnemonic to improve ICU clinician
communication with families - ✅✅V = Value comments made by the family
A = Acknowledge family emotions
L = Listen
U = Understand the patient as a person
E = Elicit family questions
, a patient who is a candidate for palliative care is someone who - ✅✅you can say" I wouldn't be
surprised if this person was dead in the next year"
WHO definition of palliative care - ✅✅It is the approach that improves the quality of life to patients &
families facing problems from life-threatening illness by relieving suffering thru an early identification &
impeccable assessment and treatment of pain & other problems (physical, psychosocial and spiritual).
Who is eligible for palliative care? - ✅✅Pt with Life Threatening Illness or Debilitating Illness
What are the time restrictions on palliative care? - ✅✅Not time restricted (may last for years), can be
implementedANY TIME over the phase of the disease from Diagnosis
What are the time restrictions on hospice care? - ✅✅Care for only the last 6 months of life
What is the most important difference between palliative and hospice care - ✅✅time care is
implemented
No specific therapy is excluded in palliative care, as long as it - ✅✅increases PT quality of life.
Generally focuses on:PAIN
Types of patients who benefit from palliative care - ✅✅PT with Congenital injuries/conditions leading
to dependence on life-sustaining treatments &/or long term care for ADL's.
Any age with acute, serious & life threatening where cure is realistic goal but conditions & treatments
pose burdens resulting in poor quality of life.
People with progressive, chronic conditions
How is A.I.M. different from
Home Care - ✅✅Home Care promotes RECOVERY & Patient Safety
Home Care is "episodic": Patients admitted and discharged QUICKLY
A.I.M. promotes transition toward End Of Life Care for patients with End Stage Illness
Define palliative care. - ✅✅Care to relieve discomfort &/or symptoms
To provide a quality of life for patients and family members through a team oriented, interdisciplinary
approach which reduces pain and other symptoms through management of them; and, through a
patient-specific, emotional and spiritual care support.
Describe the similarities and differences between hospice and palliative care. - ✅✅...
Illustrate how clients are referred to palliative care. - ✅✅...
describe nursing care for clients under palliative care. - ✅✅...
Discuss the role of family with palliative care. - ✅✅...
Describe nursing interventions used for clients who are dying. - ✅✅...
Identify resources available for clients and health care personnel as it relates to palliative care. -
✅✅...
AIM (advanced illness management) is another name for - ✅✅palliative care
A 5-step mnemonic to improve ICU clinician
communication with families - ✅✅V = Value comments made by the family
A = Acknowledge family emotions
L = Listen
U = Understand the patient as a person
E = Elicit family questions
, a patient who is a candidate for palliative care is someone who - ✅✅you can say" I wouldn't be
surprised if this person was dead in the next year"
WHO definition of palliative care - ✅✅It is the approach that improves the quality of life to patients &
families facing problems from life-threatening illness by relieving suffering thru an early identification &
impeccable assessment and treatment of pain & other problems (physical, psychosocial and spiritual).
Who is eligible for palliative care? - ✅✅Pt with Life Threatening Illness or Debilitating Illness
What are the time restrictions on palliative care? - ✅✅Not time restricted (may last for years), can be
implementedANY TIME over the phase of the disease from Diagnosis
What are the time restrictions on hospice care? - ✅✅Care for only the last 6 months of life
What is the most important difference between palliative and hospice care - ✅✅time care is
implemented
No specific therapy is excluded in palliative care, as long as it - ✅✅increases PT quality of life.
Generally focuses on:PAIN
Types of patients who benefit from palliative care - ✅✅PT with Congenital injuries/conditions leading
to dependence on life-sustaining treatments &/or long term care for ADL's.
Any age with acute, serious & life threatening where cure is realistic goal but conditions & treatments
pose burdens resulting in poor quality of life.
People with progressive, chronic conditions
How is A.I.M. different from
Home Care - ✅✅Home Care promotes RECOVERY & Patient Safety
Home Care is "episodic": Patients admitted and discharged QUICKLY
A.I.M. promotes transition toward End Of Life Care for patients with End Stage Illness
