CP 11, Palliative Care at End of
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2025-2026(100% accuracy)
Palliative Care - answer Health care aimed at symptom management
rather than curative treatment for diseases that no longer respond to
treatment.
Hospice Care - answer Provides compassionate supportive care to patients
and their families who are in their last stages of the dying.
Goals of Palliative Care: - answer Provide relief from symptoms, including
pain. Regard dying as a normal process. Affirm life and neither hasten nor
postpone death. Support holistic patient care and enhance quality of life.
Offer support to patients to live as actively as possible until death. Offer
support to family during patients illness and in their own bereavement.
What are different ethical and legal issues regarding end of life? - answer
Organ and tissue donations, advance directives (e.g., medical power of
attorney, living wills), and resuscitation.
Advance Directives - answer A general term used to describe documents
that give instructions about future medical care and treatments and who
should make them in the event the person is unable to communicate.
Directive to Physicians - answer A written document specifying the
patients wish to be allowed to die without heroic or extraordinary
measures.
Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) - answer A written physicians order instructing
health care providers not to attempt CPR, often requested by family; must
be signed by a physician to be valid.
, Living Will - answer A lay term used frequently to describe any number of
documents that give instructions about future medical care and the
treatments or the wish to be allowed to die without heroic or
extraordinary measures should the patient be unable to communicate for
self.
Medical Power of Attorney - answer At term used by some states to
describe a document used for listing the person or persons to make health
care decisions should a patient become unable to make informed decisions
for self.
What are essential communication components in end of life care? -
answer Empathy and active listening.
Empathy - answer The identification with and understanding of another's
situation, feeling, and/or motives.
Listening - answer An active process required in the development of
empathy toward another's feelings.
How does silence aide in communication with dying clients and their
family? - answer Frequently related to the overwhelming feelings
experienced at the end of life. Can also allow time to gather thoughts.
Listening sends a message of acceptance and comfort. Also considerate
patients ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds.
Near the end of life how can a patients communication oftentimes be
identified as? - answer Confused, disoriented, or garbled.
What is one way for creating an environment for the patient and his/her
family members? - answer A family conference.
What are the physical manifestations of approaching death in regards to
Sensory Systems? - answer Hearing usually the last sense to disappear.
Decreased sensation and decreased perception of pain and touch.
Decreased taste and smell with disease progression. Blurring of vision,
sinking and glazing of eyes, blink reflex absent, eyelids remain half open.
Life fully solved & updated
2025-2026(100% accuracy)
Palliative Care - answer Health care aimed at symptom management
rather than curative treatment for diseases that no longer respond to
treatment.
Hospice Care - answer Provides compassionate supportive care to patients
and their families who are in their last stages of the dying.
Goals of Palliative Care: - answer Provide relief from symptoms, including
pain. Regard dying as a normal process. Affirm life and neither hasten nor
postpone death. Support holistic patient care and enhance quality of life.
Offer support to patients to live as actively as possible until death. Offer
support to family during patients illness and in their own bereavement.
What are different ethical and legal issues regarding end of life? - answer
Organ and tissue donations, advance directives (e.g., medical power of
attorney, living wills), and resuscitation.
Advance Directives - answer A general term used to describe documents
that give instructions about future medical care and treatments and who
should make them in the event the person is unable to communicate.
Directive to Physicians - answer A written document specifying the
patients wish to be allowed to die without heroic or extraordinary
measures.
Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) - answer A written physicians order instructing
health care providers not to attempt CPR, often requested by family; must
be signed by a physician to be valid.
, Living Will - answer A lay term used frequently to describe any number of
documents that give instructions about future medical care and the
treatments or the wish to be allowed to die without heroic or
extraordinary measures should the patient be unable to communicate for
self.
Medical Power of Attorney - answer At term used by some states to
describe a document used for listing the person or persons to make health
care decisions should a patient become unable to make informed decisions
for self.
What are essential communication components in end of life care? -
answer Empathy and active listening.
Empathy - answer The identification with and understanding of another's
situation, feeling, and/or motives.
Listening - answer An active process required in the development of
empathy toward another's feelings.
How does silence aide in communication with dying clients and their
family? - answer Frequently related to the overwhelming feelings
experienced at the end of life. Can also allow time to gather thoughts.
Listening sends a message of acceptance and comfort. Also considerate
patients ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds.
Near the end of life how can a patients communication oftentimes be
identified as? - answer Confused, disoriented, or garbled.
What is one way for creating an environment for the patient and his/her
family members? - answer A family conference.
What are the physical manifestations of approaching death in regards to
Sensory Systems? - answer Hearing usually the last sense to disappear.
Decreased sensation and decreased perception of pain and touch.
Decreased taste and smell with disease progression. Blurring of vision,
sinking and glazing of eyes, blink reflex absent, eyelids remain half open.
