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ELNEC Palliative Care Nursing Exam Questions and Answers 100% Solved Palliative Care - Patient- and family-centered care that optimizes quality of life by anticipating, preventing, and treating suffering. Hospice - a team approach to providing care to people with life threatening illness or in...

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ELNEC Palliative Care Nursing Exam

Questions and Answers 100% Solved


Palliative Care - ✔✔Patient- and family-centered care that optimizes quality

of life by anticipating, preventing, and treating suffering.

Hospice - ✔✔a team approach to providing care to people with life

threatening illness or injuries

Continuum of care - ✔✔a model which shows healthcare given to a patient

in a span of time

Empathizing - ✔✔a communication technique which nurses use to

understand or relate to seriously ill patients

SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation) - ✔✔an

effective way to communicate shared expectations with healthcare teams

Non-verbal communication - ✔✔Communicating without the use of words

includes apparent behaviors such as facial expressions, gestures, body

language, presence, tone of voice, and mannerisms

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Addiction - ✔✔a primary, chronic, neurobiological disease with genetic,

psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and

manifestations

Tolerance - ✔✔a state of adaptation in which exposure to a drug induces

changes that result in diminution of one or more of the drug's effects over

time

Nociceptive - ✔✔the pain occurs due to damage to bones, soft tissue, or

internal organs

Dyspnea - ✔✔a subjective experience of breathing discomfort, difficult or

labored breathing; commonly called shortness of breath

Anorexia - ✔✔the reduced or complete loss of desire to eat or a loss of

appetite associated with a decrease in food intake

Cachexia - ✔✔a condition where a patient loses substantial body weight

and muscle mass in a short period of time due to a chronic illness

Bereavement - ✔✔state of being deprived of something valuable or

beloved; state of being bereaved or bereft; provides dispensation from

usual activities for a variable period of time

Mourning - ✔✔the social expression of sorrow for a loss

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Grief - ✔✔the emotional response to a loss

Loss - ✔✔the absence of a possession or future possession

Delirium - ✔✔a disturbance in attention and awareness characterized by a

fluctuation in severity

Terminal secretions - ✔✔a distressing and frightening symptom for those

involved in the patient's terminal care. Is also known as the "death rattle".

the death vigil - ✔✔a quiet gathering, usually spent by the family with the

patient before death, especially to keep watch or to pray.

Which of the following statements is true about serious, chronic illnesses -

✔✔The majority of annual U.S. healthcare spending goes toward on

chronic illnesses.

What should drive decision-making in palliative care - ✔✔The patient's

goals of care

Mr. Rodriquez tells you that he is very frightened by not knowing what

happens after death. Which domain of quality of life is being affected by his

serious illness? - ✔✔Spiritual

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