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Palliative Care -️️Focus is to improve the quality of life Initiated when a life-threatening illness is diagnose There are no time restrictions Includes hospice and end-of-life care, but is broader Symptom Management = Comfort Care -️️Symptom Management = Comfort Care Hospice -️️Em...

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N450 Final Palliative care-Questions with Correct Answers/Verified/ Latest
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Palliative Care - ✔️✔️Focus is to improve the quality of life

Initiated when a life-threatening illness is diagnose

There are no time restrictions

Includes hospice and end-of-life care, but is broader



Symptom Management = Comfort Care - ✔️✔️Symptom Management = Comfort Care



Hospice - ✔️✔️Emphasize palliative rather than curative care



Hospice- The team usually consists of: - ✔️✔️Clergy or other counselors

Home health aides

Hospice physician (or medical director)

Nurses

Social workers

Trained volunteers

Speech, physical, and occupational therapists, if needed

The person's personal physician may also be included



Criteria for hospice - ✔️✔️Patient must desire services

Two physicians must certify patient has
6 months or less to live



What is hospice involved in? - ✔️✔️Care that focuses on providing compassion, concern, and
support for the dying patients and their families

Hospice care is provided once a person decides to not continue with curative treatments

Aims to provide care and comfort for people in the final phases of a terminal disease



End of Life Care - ✔️✔️Refers to the final phase of a patient's illness, when death is imminent

Period of time from diagnosis of a terminal illness to actual death varies considerably, depending on
the patient's diagnosis and extent of disease

, Term used for issues and services related to death and dying

Focuses on physical and psychosocial needs of patient and family



End-of-Life Care - What We Know - ✔️✔️Preparing for Death

There is no typical death. Every person dies in their own way, own time, with their own culture,
belief system, values and unique relationships with others.

Time cannot be predicted

Some patients instinctively know when death will occur

Signs and symptoms are only guidelines

Dying is a natural slowing down process

Signs and symptoms can last weeks or may be present only hours or minutes prior to death



End-of-Life Care - Psychological and Spiritual Signs of Active Dying - Center to Advance Palliative Care
- ✔️✔️Fear of dying

Fear of abandonment

Fear of the unknown

Dreams and visions with powerful themes or symbols

Withdrawal from family and friends

Increased focus on spiritual issues

Terminal anguish - state prior to death where patient is unable to suppress or repress painful,
unresolved psychological issues



Physical Manifestations- Death - ✔️✔️Death occurs when all vital organs and systems cease to
function



The "usual road" to death - ✔️✔️- experience increasing drowsiness and eventually become
unarousable.

Sleepy, lethargic, semicomatose, comatose, death



The "difficult road" to death - due to nervous system agitation prior to entering semicomatose state.

Restlessness, confusion, tremors, hallucinations, delirium, muscle jerking, seizures - ✔️✔️due to
nervous system agitation prior to entering semicomatose state.

Restlessness, confusion, tremors, hallucinations, delirium, muscle jerking, seizures

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