NUR 445: Exam 4 Study Guide
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1. What is the purpose of advanced directives? -
ANSWER ✓ Help patients identify wishes regarding
healthcare decisions in a legal manner
Aid healthcare personal and family to respect patient's
wishes
Provide immunity from liability when providers act in
good faith and in accordance with state law
2. What does a partial do not resuscitate order do? -
ANSWER ✓ Order that allows patient to chose a
portion of life-sustaining treatment they wish to
exclude during the event of a cardiac or respiratory
arrest
,3. What does the five wishes do? - ANSWER ✓ A
movement that encourages individuals to provide
more specific instruction than offered in a living will,
based on five (5) categories
4. What are the five categories for five wishes? -
ANSWER ✓ The decision maker (durable power of
attorney)
The kind of treatment wanted or not wanted (living
will)
Comfort level
Treatment by others
Information to relay to loved ones
5. What does a Physician's Orders for Life-sustaining
Treatment do? - ANSWER ✓ Document that states
what type of care a person wants at the end of life.
Aimed at emergency personnel on what to do while
patient is still at home, before emergency treatment has
been initiated
,6. T/F advance directives are taken into account in
emergencies? - ANSWER ✓ False: emergency
workers must act quickly so advance directives are
not followed in an emergency
7. What problems are associated with the advanced
directives? - ANSWER ✓ Lack of use.
Fear that they allow healthcare providers to withhold
care
Location and time: people put off getting one thinking
they have more time
Healthcare team unaware of patient having one
Misconception that they are expensive
8. What is the nurses role with advance directives? -
ANSWER ✓ Be well informed
Patient education
9. What is loss? - ANSWER ✓ Absence of an object,
position, ability, attribute
, 10. What is grief? - ANSWER ✓ Reaction to a
loss/emotional reaction
11. What is Bereavement - ANSWER ✓ Provides
dispensation (Withdrawal) from usual activities
12. What is mourning? - ANSWER ✓ The process of
integrating the loss into everyday life (outward
expression of the loss)
13. What is the nurses role in grief? - ANSWER ✓
Assess the grief
Assist the patient with grief
Support survivors
14. What are the five types of grief - ANSWER ✓
Anticipatory grief
Acute grief
Normal grief
Complicated grief
Disenfranchised grief
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1. What is the purpose of advanced directives? -
ANSWER ✓ Help patients identify wishes regarding
healthcare decisions in a legal manner
Aid healthcare personal and family to respect patient's
wishes
Provide immunity from liability when providers act in
good faith and in accordance with state law
2. What does a partial do not resuscitate order do? -
ANSWER ✓ Order that allows patient to chose a
portion of life-sustaining treatment they wish to
exclude during the event of a cardiac or respiratory
arrest
,3. What does the five wishes do? - ANSWER ✓ A
movement that encourages individuals to provide
more specific instruction than offered in a living will,
based on five (5) categories
4. What are the five categories for five wishes? -
ANSWER ✓ The decision maker (durable power of
attorney)
The kind of treatment wanted or not wanted (living
will)
Comfort level
Treatment by others
Information to relay to loved ones
5. What does a Physician's Orders for Life-sustaining
Treatment do? - ANSWER ✓ Document that states
what type of care a person wants at the end of life.
Aimed at emergency personnel on what to do while
patient is still at home, before emergency treatment has
been initiated
,6. T/F advance directives are taken into account in
emergencies? - ANSWER ✓ False: emergency
workers must act quickly so advance directives are
not followed in an emergency
7. What problems are associated with the advanced
directives? - ANSWER ✓ Lack of use.
Fear that they allow healthcare providers to withhold
care
Location and time: people put off getting one thinking
they have more time
Healthcare team unaware of patient having one
Misconception that they are expensive
8. What is the nurses role with advance directives? -
ANSWER ✓ Be well informed
Patient education
9. What is loss? - ANSWER ✓ Absence of an object,
position, ability, attribute
, 10. What is grief? - ANSWER ✓ Reaction to a
loss/emotional reaction
11. What is Bereavement - ANSWER ✓ Provides
dispensation (Withdrawal) from usual activities
12. What is mourning? - ANSWER ✓ The process of
integrating the loss into everyday life (outward
expression of the loss)
13. What is the nurses role in grief? - ANSWER ✓
Assess the grief
Assist the patient with grief
Support survivors
14. What are the five types of grief - ANSWER ✓
Anticipatory grief
Acute grief
Normal grief
Complicated grief
Disenfranchised grief
