Hospice Care - ️️Focus on comfort and quality of life, rather than cure. The goal is
to enable patients to be comfortable and free of pain, so that they live each day as fully
as possible.
Post Morten Care (Nurse) - ️️-Notify all pt's consulting physicians of pt death
- offer support/em...
NUR1212C FSCJ Exam 3
Hospice Care - ✔️✔️Focus on comfort and quality of life, rather than cure. The goal is
to enable patients to be comfortable and free of pain, so that they live each day as fully
as possible.
Post Morten Care (Nurse) - ✔️✔️-Notify all pt's consulting physicians of pt death
- offer support/empathy to family
-Removing pt hospital ID band, IV lines, catheter
-document pt time of death in medical record
Lumbar puncture - ✔️✔️"spinal tap" an invasive outpatient procedure used to remove a
sample of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) form the subarachnoid space in the spine
Cachexia - ✔️✔️Weakness and wasting of the body due to severe chronic illness
Death Rattle - ✔️✔️sound often produced by someone who is near death as a result of
fluids such as saliva and bronchial secretions accumulating in the throat and upper
chest
Loss - ✔️✔️Normal part of the human experience; can be commonplace, relationship-
oriented, or intangible and circumstantial
Grief - ✔️✔️individualized response to a loss that is perceived, real, or anticipated
Anticipatory grief - ✔️✔️Helps people recognize grief as part of living with a terminal
prognosis, experiencing anticipatory grief as they prepare for the expected death
disenfranchised grief - ✔️✔️grief involving a deceased person that is a socially
ambiguous loss that can't be openly mourned or supported
complicated grief - ✔️✔️unresolved - a type of grief that impedes a person's future life,
usually because the person clings to sorrow or is buffeted by contradictory emotions
Mourning - ✔️✔️All outward expression and management of grief
Bereavement - ✔️✔️State if having lost a significant other
5 Stages of Grief - ✔️✔️Denial, Anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance
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