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CHPLN - Certified Hospice and Palliative Licensed Nurse: Questions With Solutions
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CHPLN - Certified Hospice and Palliative LicensedNurse: Questions With Solutions
Hospice Care Right 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 Right 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 Right Ans - Nurse
Psychosocial Professionals - social workers
Counselor- Chaplin, Bereavement, Counselor or Dietitian
Physician
Hospice Levels of Care Right Ans - - routine (home) care
•Days 1-60
•Days 61+
- respite care
- inpatient hospice care
- crisis or continuous care
Hypercapnia Right Ans - the abnormal buildup of carbon dioxide in the
blood
Exsanguinate Right Ans - to drain of blood
R. A. A. S Right Ans - Activated by the kidneys when patient is in heart
failure.
Neuralgia Right Ans - nerve pain
first hospice in the US Right Ans - New Haven, CT in 1960's - Florence Wald
, Multi-disciplinary team Right Ans - More hospital based
Uremia Right Ans - urine in the blood
Mycolonus Right Ans - Movement disorder, facial or multi focal, sudden,
brief, shock-like, involuntary movements - jerks, twitching, brief spasms of
muscles.
Assessing/Reassessing Right Ans - Usually the correct answer
Akathisia Right Ans - intense need to move about; characterized by restless
movement, pacing, inability to remain still, and the client's report of inner
restlessness
Dystonia Right Ans - a condition of abnormal muscle tone that causes the
impairment of voluntary muscle movement
Ischemia Right Ans - an inadequate blood supply to an organ or part of the
body, especially the heart muscles. Causes 87% of strokes
Hemorrhagic Right Ans - pertaining to profuse or excessive bleeding.
Usually occurs suddenly.
Dementia Right 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 Right Ans - Used to determine the progression of
dementia.
Baclofen (Lioresal) Right Ans - Muscle Relaxant. Can only be given
PO/Intrathecal (spinal cord)
Left sided heart failure (CHF) Right Ans - 1. Pnea, SOB
2. Crackles
3. Oliguria
4. Frothy Sputum
5. Displaced Apical Pulse (Hypertrophy)
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