NSG 430 Exam 1 – Questions With Trusted Solutions
Add to calendar
Play your way to mastery with fun games
Match Blocks Charms NEW
Practice questions for this set
Learn 1 /7 Study with Learn
a life-threatening emergency caused by insufficient adrenocortical hormones or a
sudden sharp decrease in these hormone
Choose an answer
1 Palliative Care 2 HHS occurs when
3 Addisonian's crisis 4 Decisional capacity
, Don't know?
Terms in this set (69)
Palliative Care Care or treatment focusing on reducing the severity
of symptoms; curative treatment can be involved
Hospice Care treatment of the terminally ill with the goal of helping
them to die comfortably, without pain; curative care is
forgone
Physical manifestations of EOL - Cheyne-Stokes respirations, death rattle, terminal
respiratory secretions, loss of gag reflex (risk for aspiration)
Physical manifestations of EOL - Mottling, cyanosis in nail beds, cold/clammy skin, and
integumentary "waxlike" skin very near death
Decisional capacity ability to consent to or refuse care
Tissue/Organ donation Some used within hours, notify physician immediately
What guides our care? Code of Ethics - relieve suffering
Principle of Beneficence - care is provided to benefit
Standard of Care - define nursing acts that are
required for safe and competent care
Assessments - last hours of life limit to comfort measures, concerns about pain and
respiratory should be addressed, emotional/comfort
support
Postmortem Care close pt's eyes, replace dentures, wash/position body
- allow family privacy
Add to calendar
Play your way to mastery with fun games
Match Blocks Charms NEW
Practice questions for this set
Learn 1 /7 Study with Learn
a life-threatening emergency caused by insufficient adrenocortical hormones or a
sudden sharp decrease in these hormone
Choose an answer
1 Palliative Care 2 HHS occurs when
3 Addisonian's crisis 4 Decisional capacity
, Don't know?
Terms in this set (69)
Palliative Care Care or treatment focusing on reducing the severity
of symptoms; curative treatment can be involved
Hospice Care treatment of the terminally ill with the goal of helping
them to die comfortably, without pain; curative care is
forgone
Physical manifestations of EOL - Cheyne-Stokes respirations, death rattle, terminal
respiratory secretions, loss of gag reflex (risk for aspiration)
Physical manifestations of EOL - Mottling, cyanosis in nail beds, cold/clammy skin, and
integumentary "waxlike" skin very near death
Decisional capacity ability to consent to or refuse care
Tissue/Organ donation Some used within hours, notify physician immediately
What guides our care? Code of Ethics - relieve suffering
Principle of Beneficence - care is provided to benefit
Standard of Care - define nursing acts that are
required for safe and competent care
Assessments - last hours of life limit to comfort measures, concerns about pain and
respiratory should be addressed, emotional/comfort
support
Postmortem Care close pt's eyes, replace dentures, wash/position body
- allow family privacy
