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CHPLN QUESTIONS WITH AANSWERS.

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CHPLN QUESTIONS WITH AANSWERS.
Hospice Care ANS - Care focuses on a person's last six months of life of less. When curative treatment is
no longer an option, hospice professionals work to make the patient's life as comfortable as possible.



Palliative Care ANS - Care designed not to treat an illness but to provide physical and emotional
comfort to the patient and support and guidance to his or her family. Does not require a 6 month
diagnosis



Core IDT ANS - Nurse

Psychosocial Professionals - social workers

Counselor- Chaplin, Bereavement, Counselor or Dietitian

Physician



Hospice Levels of Care ANS - - routine (home) care

•Days 1-60

•Days 61+



- respite care



- inpatient hospice care



- crisis or continuous care



Hypercapnia ANS - the abnormal buildup of carbon dioxide in the blood



Exsanguinate ANS - to drain of blood



R. A. A. S ANS - Activated by the kidneys when patient is in heart failure.

, Neuralgia ANS - nerve pain



first hospice in the US ANS - New Haven, CT in 1960's - Florence Wald



Multi-disciplinary team ANS - More hospital based



Uremia ANS - urine in the blood



Mycolonus ANS - Movement disorder, facial or multi focal, sudden, brief, shock-like, involuntary
movements - jerks, twitching, brief spasms of muscles.



Assessing/Reassessing ANS - Usually the correct answer



Akathisia ANS - intense need to move about; characterized by restless movement, pacing, inability to
remain still, and the client's report of inner restlessness



Dystonia ANS - a condition of abnormal muscle tone that causes the impairment of voluntary muscle
movement



Ischemia ANS - an inadequate blood supply to an organ or part of the body, especially the heart
muscles. Causes 87% of strokes



Hemorrhagic ANS - pertaining to profuse or excessive bleeding. Usually occurs suddenly.



Dementia ANS - group of symptoms marked by memory loss and loss of other cognitive functions such
as perception, thinking, reasoning, and remembering



F.A.S.T scale assessment ANS - Used to determine the progression of dementia.



Baclofen (Lioresal) ANS - Muscle Relaxant. Can only be given PO/Intrathecal (spinal cord)

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