Palliative Care Nursing Final Exam
Graded A+ with Questions and
Answers
What is MAiD? - ✔✔Medical assistance in dying
When does a palliative care approach begin? - ✔✔Early in the illness trajectory of a progressive
life-limiting illness, including advanced dementia and severe frailty.
Total Pain - ✔✔Physical, psychological, social, and spiritual components of a person's experience
of pain.
Opioids should not be used to treat anxiety, mood disorders or sleep disorders, why? -
✔✔Tolerance will develop, meaning higher doses will be needed to obtain the same effects.
Three key standards of the Golden Standards Framework? - ✔✔Identify - Patients who may be
in their last year of life and identify their needs
Assess - Current and future clinical and personal needs
Plan - Living well and dying well
What is SPICT? - ✔✔Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool - Used to help identify
people whose health is deteriorating.
, Assess them for unmet supportive and palliative care needs. Plan care.
ESAS-R - ✔✔Edmonton Symptom Assessment System - Revised
Ex: Scale of no pain -> worst pain possible, no drowsiness -> worst drowsiness possible, no nausea ->
worst possible nausea
Barriers to Pain Control? - ✔✔Class:
1. Not important
2. Poor assessment
3. Addiction
4. Can't or won't verbalize pain
5. Will not take medications
Don't have finances for meds
No access to pharmacies
Educational barriers
Pain Assessment? - ✔✔Provocative or Palliative (what makes it worse/better)
Quality or Quantity (For example, is the pain sharp or dull, throbbing?)
Regian or Radiation(Location)
Severity Scale (Numeric pain intensity scale)
Timing (Onset)
Understand Patient's Perception (Activities of Daily Living assessment)
Mouth care for palliative patients? - ✔✔Done hourly
Graded A+ with Questions and
Answers
What is MAiD? - ✔✔Medical assistance in dying
When does a palliative care approach begin? - ✔✔Early in the illness trajectory of a progressive
life-limiting illness, including advanced dementia and severe frailty.
Total Pain - ✔✔Physical, psychological, social, and spiritual components of a person's experience
of pain.
Opioids should not be used to treat anxiety, mood disorders or sleep disorders, why? -
✔✔Tolerance will develop, meaning higher doses will be needed to obtain the same effects.
Three key standards of the Golden Standards Framework? - ✔✔Identify - Patients who may be
in their last year of life and identify their needs
Assess - Current and future clinical and personal needs
Plan - Living well and dying well
What is SPICT? - ✔✔Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool - Used to help identify
people whose health is deteriorating.
, Assess them for unmet supportive and palliative care needs. Plan care.
ESAS-R - ✔✔Edmonton Symptom Assessment System - Revised
Ex: Scale of no pain -> worst pain possible, no drowsiness -> worst drowsiness possible, no nausea ->
worst possible nausea
Barriers to Pain Control? - ✔✔Class:
1. Not important
2. Poor assessment
3. Addiction
4. Can't or won't verbalize pain
5. Will not take medications
Don't have finances for meds
No access to pharmacies
Educational barriers
Pain Assessment? - ✔✔Provocative or Palliative (what makes it worse/better)
Quality or Quantity (For example, is the pain sharp or dull, throbbing?)
Regian or Radiation(Location)
Severity Scale (Numeric pain intensity scale)
Timing (Onset)
Understand Patient's Perception (Activities of Daily Living assessment)
Mouth care for palliative patients? - ✔✔Done hourly
