CHAPTER 3 AND 4: SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY FOR THE
SURGICAL TECHNOLOGIST NEWEST ACTUAL 2025/2026 EXAM
STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWRES.VEERIFED/GRADED A+
anger (Five Stages of Grief) - ---Answers----when denial
cannot be continued, it is replaced with __________, rage, envy,
and resentment; the patient asks, "why is this happening to
me?"
bargaining (Five Stages of Grief) - ---Answers----if a patient
has been unable to accept the situation and has gone through
the anger stage, he or she might move to the stage of
_______________ to postpone the inevitable; the patient might
say, "just let me live long enough to see my son graduate."
depression (Five Stages of Grief) - ---Answers----when a
terminally ill person can no longer deny the illness as it
progress, his or her anger is replaced with a sense of great
loss; the patient might be thinking, "please don't take me away
from my family."
acceptance (Five Stages of Grief) - ---Answers----when a
patient has had enough time to work through the first four
stages, he or she will reach a stage of being neither depressed
or angry; the statement of resolution might be, "I know I will be
in a better place."
, general categories of causes of death - ---Answers----
accidental, terminal, prolonged (chronic), sudden
accidental death - ---Answers----deaths that are caused by
nature (floods, lightening, earthquake) or humans (motor
vehicle, gunshot), the family is left to deal with the emotional
trauma
terminal death - ---Answers----a patient who is suffering
from a disease that is progressive and incurable, where death
will be the final outcome; palliative treatment is often
prescribed for these patients to improve their quality of life
during the course of the illness
prolonged (chronic) death - ---Answers----a condition that is
long-lasting (more than 4-6 weeks, but frequently lifelong),
and needs to be managed on a long-term basis; asthma, high
blood pressure
sudden death - ---Answers----any death that occurs without
warning, such as cardiac arrest of sudden infant death
syndrome (SIDS)
life support - ---Answers----a set of therapies that preserve
a patient's life when body systems are not functioning
sufficiently to sustain it, and a combination of techniques are
used including feeding tubes, intravenous drips, total
SURGICAL TECHNOLOGIST NEWEST ACTUAL 2025/2026 EXAM
STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWRES.VEERIFED/GRADED A+
anger (Five Stages of Grief) - ---Answers----when denial
cannot be continued, it is replaced with __________, rage, envy,
and resentment; the patient asks, "why is this happening to
me?"
bargaining (Five Stages of Grief) - ---Answers----if a patient
has been unable to accept the situation and has gone through
the anger stage, he or she might move to the stage of
_______________ to postpone the inevitable; the patient might
say, "just let me live long enough to see my son graduate."
depression (Five Stages of Grief) - ---Answers----when a
terminally ill person can no longer deny the illness as it
progress, his or her anger is replaced with a sense of great
loss; the patient might be thinking, "please don't take me away
from my family."
acceptance (Five Stages of Grief) - ---Answers----when a
patient has had enough time to work through the first four
stages, he or she will reach a stage of being neither depressed
or angry; the statement of resolution might be, "I know I will be
in a better place."
, general categories of causes of death - ---Answers----
accidental, terminal, prolonged (chronic), sudden
accidental death - ---Answers----deaths that are caused by
nature (floods, lightening, earthquake) or humans (motor
vehicle, gunshot), the family is left to deal with the emotional
trauma
terminal death - ---Answers----a patient who is suffering
from a disease that is progressive and incurable, where death
will be the final outcome; palliative treatment is often
prescribed for these patients to improve their quality of life
during the course of the illness
prolonged (chronic) death - ---Answers----a condition that is
long-lasting (more than 4-6 weeks, but frequently lifelong),
and needs to be managed on a long-term basis; asthma, high
blood pressure
sudden death - ---Answers----any death that occurs without
warning, such as cardiac arrest of sudden infant death
syndrome (SIDS)
life support - ---Answers----a set of therapies that preserve
a patient's life when body systems are not functioning
sufficiently to sustain it, and a combination of techniques are
used including feeding tubes, intravenous drips, total
