Hondros NUR 212 Exam 1 2025/2026
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Interprofessional team members in palliative care - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Medicine
Nursing
Social work
Dietician
Clergy
What is palliative care? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Provide comfort care for patients
with life long illnesses.
*curative treatment*
,-improves quality of life
-decreases health care costs
-alleviates burden of care
Why is the need for palliative care increasing? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Baby
boomers
Demographic changes (new technology)
What is hospice? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔End of life comfort care (may include
palliative care to)
-Live fully
-Live comfortably
-Die with dignity
Why is hospice care underutilized? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Lack of information
-Physician feels like they failed
-Patients/family are scared and they do not understand how hospice works
,-Cultural and ethical groups that do not want outsiders to take care of dying
family member
-Feel like they are giving up
Do patient need to be actively dying to need hospice treatment? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔No, hospice includes patients who typically have less than 6
months to live.
Most common hospice diagnosis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Cancer
Heart disease
Average hospice stay - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔21 days
What does hospice care focus on? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-Pain control
-Symptom management
-Spiritual assessment
-Family assessment/management of needs
Barriers to hospice - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-Veterans
-Homeless patients
-Poverty
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, -Institutionalized
-Disabled
What 2 things are required before being admitted to hospice? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔1. Patient must have desire for hospice
2. Agree in writing that only hospice care will be used
How many physicians need to sign off on initial hospice admit? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔2 physicians for initial 6 month admission
1 physician for 6 months thereafter
What are advanced directives? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Legal directives that state
your medical decisions regarding of life.
-also called a living will
-patient must understand what is going on in order to make advanced
directive decisions
Healthcare planning - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Does the patient want CPR?
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Answers | Latest Update
Interprofessional team members in palliative care - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Medicine
Nursing
Social work
Dietician
Clergy
What is palliative care? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Provide comfort care for patients
with life long illnesses.
*curative treatment*
,-improves quality of life
-decreases health care costs
-alleviates burden of care
Why is the need for palliative care increasing? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Baby
boomers
Demographic changes (new technology)
What is hospice? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔End of life comfort care (may include
palliative care to)
-Live fully
-Live comfortably
-Die with dignity
Why is hospice care underutilized? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Lack of information
-Physician feels like they failed
-Patients/family are scared and they do not understand how hospice works
,-Cultural and ethical groups that do not want outsiders to take care of dying
family member
-Feel like they are giving up
Do patient need to be actively dying to need hospice treatment? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔No, hospice includes patients who typically have less than 6
months to live.
Most common hospice diagnosis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Cancer
Heart disease
Average hospice stay - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔21 days
What does hospice care focus on? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-Pain control
-Symptom management
-Spiritual assessment
-Family assessment/management of needs
Barriers to hospice - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-Veterans
-Homeless patients
-Poverty
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COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, -Institutionalized
-Disabled
What 2 things are required before being admitted to hospice? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔1. Patient must have desire for hospice
2. Agree in writing that only hospice care will be used
How many physicians need to sign off on initial hospice admit? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔2 physicians for initial 6 month admission
1 physician for 6 months thereafter
What are advanced directives? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Legal directives that state
your medical decisions regarding of life.
-also called a living will
-patient must understand what is going on in order to make advanced
directive decisions
Healthcare planning - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Does the patient want CPR?
