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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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