Hospice qualifications
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-patient chooses 'comfort care' rather than 'curative care'
-Medicare Hospice Benefit
-prognosis of less than 6 months life expectancy
-Care can be given for extended periods after 6 months if the patient
continues to need end-of-life care
-if condition stabilizes the patient can be discharged from hospice
, Effects & side effects of corticosteroids
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Delayed wound healing with ↑ risk for wound dehiscence
• Fat from extremities redistributed to trunk and face
• Glucose intolerance
• Hypertension with ↑ risk for heart failure
• Hypocalcemia related to anti-vitamin D effect
• Hypokalemia
• ↑ Risk for infection
• Infection develops more rapidly and spreads more widely
• Mood and behavior changes
• Pathologic fractures, especially compression fractures of the vertebrae
(osteoporosis)
• Peptic ulcer disease
• Pituitary ACTH synthesis suppressed
• Skeletal muscle atrophy and weakness
• Suppressed inflammatory response
Mood changes that range from dysphoria to hypo mania
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Cyclothymic Disorder
What nursing care to avoid chronic constipation?
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-patient chooses 'comfort care' rather than 'curative care'
-Medicare Hospice Benefit
-prognosis of less than 6 months life expectancy
-Care can be given for extended periods after 6 months if the patient
continues to need end-of-life care
-if condition stabilizes the patient can be discharged from hospice
, Effects & side effects of corticosteroids
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Delayed wound healing with ↑ risk for wound dehiscence
• Fat from extremities redistributed to trunk and face
• Glucose intolerance
• Hypertension with ↑ risk for heart failure
• Hypocalcemia related to anti-vitamin D effect
• Hypokalemia
• ↑ Risk for infection
• Infection develops more rapidly and spreads more widely
• Mood and behavior changes
• Pathologic fractures, especially compression fractures of the vertebrae
(osteoporosis)
• Peptic ulcer disease
• Pituitary ACTH synthesis suppressed
• Skeletal muscle atrophy and weakness
• Suppressed inflammatory response
Mood changes that range from dysphoria to hypo mania
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Cyclothymic Disorder
What nursing care to avoid chronic constipation?
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