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NUR 212 Hondros Quiz 1 with complete solutions 2024_2025.
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NUR 212 Hondros Quiz 1 with completesolutions 2024/2025
Palliative Care - ANSWER-Care or treatment focusing on reducing the severity of
symptoms
Begins during curative or restorative health care
Goals for palliative care - ANSWER-Prevent and relieve suffering
improve quality of life for serious life-limiting illnesses
Hospice Care - ANSWER-Provides compassion and support for those in the last
phases of terminal disease
6 months or less to live
No curative treatments
Hospice care goals - ANSWER-Live fully and comfortably
die with dignity
What do hospice nurses do - ANSWER-Pain control
Symptom Management
Spiritual Assessment
Assessment and management of family needs
What is death - ANSWER-When vital organs and body systems cease to function
Irreversible cessation of cardio, resp, and brain function.
Brain death - ANSWER-Coma or unresponsive
, Absence of brainstem reflexes
Apnea
End of Life - ANSWER-the final phase of a patient's illness when death is
imminent
Goals of End of life - ANSWER--provide comfort and supportive care during dying
process
-improve quality of remaining life
-help ensure a dignified death
-provide emotional support to family
What are the physical manifestations of End of life - ANSWER-Irregular breathing
Alternate apnea & deep, rapid breathing
Inability to cough or clear secretions
Grunting, gurgling, "death rattle"
What's the last sense to disappear - ANSWER-Hearing
EOL physical manifestations: Integumentary - ANSWER-"Waxlike" skin when very
near death
Cyanosis of nose, nail beds, knees
Cold, clammy skin
Mottling on hands, feet, arms, and legs
EOL physical manifestations: Urinary - ANSWER-Gradual decrease in urinary
output
Incontinent of urine
Unable to urinate
EOL physical manifestations: GI - ANSWER-Slowing of digestive tract and
possible cessation of function
Accumulation of gas
Distention and nausea
Loss of sphincter control
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