NURS 3210 Test 2 Review Questions
with Correct/Verified Answers 2025-
2026 Updated.
Palliative Care is - Answer care to relieve pain and suffering. It is not to relieve the patient of
illnesses. Medicine for pain relievers the pain and often hastens death.
Death is the ___________ ending of life - Answer irreversible
TRUE OR FALSE: Dying is the approach towards the end, start letting people - Answer True
The average stay in hospice is ________ - Answer 26 days, because early referrals do not
happen
Bereavement care - Answer Caring for family after death
TRUE OR FALSE: 1/ 10 people will die suddenly. - Answer TRUE
___________ of people will die from a prolonged illness - Answer 90%
The four things that matter most to family of a dying person are these quotes: - Answer
forgive me, I forgive you, thank you, and I love you
TRUE OR FALSE: The journey of dying can be predicted. - Answer FALSE
Withdrawal is the __________ - Answer Most common sign of death
Possible physical signs during dying - Answer weakness, fatigue, confusion, agitation, loss of
appetite,change in bowel and bladder function, breathing, skin temperature, and color
Dying people often display the phenomenon of __________ - Answer seeing those who have
passed before them
Withdrawal _______ the dying person for death - Answer perpares
A dying person sleeps _______ and talks ________ - Answer more, less
,The dying person make be _______ just before dying, which serves as a tease to the inevitable. -
Answer alert
The last sense to go is? - Answer hearing
Confusion, bad dreams, hallucination, or agitation may be caused by? - Answer medication,
low oxygen, metabolic changes, and dehydration
palliative euthenation - Answer kills them
palliative sedation - Answer deliberately inducing deep sleep, relief of intractable symptoms
and profound spiritual/physical anguish
terminal anguish - Answer inability to cure the pain of a dying person
Forcing fluids can __________ suffering of the dying person - Answer increase
TRUE OF FALSE: A dying person often has increased appetite and thirst for fluids. - Answer
FALSE, loss of appetite or inability to swallow may occur
Keep the mouth clean and moist by moisturizing the lips and mouth with what 4 things? -
Answer ice chips, water dipped q-tip applicator, and lip balm
The nurse of a dying person can do what to make the dying person have a therapeutic death? -
Answer encourage music, meditation, prayer, skin care, pain assessment, message, and
loving presence.
Constipation near death can occur from? - Answer pain medicine, decreased mobility,
slowed bowels, and decreased fluid
Urine may be? - Answer dark and sparse
Incontinence is? - Answer involuntary discharge of urine, occurs in a dying person often
How can nurses help with constipation and decreased urine output? - Answer encourage
fluids or give a suppository or catheter
, What is death rattle? - Answer An ominous sound that indicates the lungs are filling up with
fluid, may be gurgling
Periods of no breathing of up to ______ seconds can occur in the dying person - Answer 60
Someone with a death rattle may be _________ to let the excess saliva drain - Answer laid
on their side
How can a nurse make breathing easier in a dying patient - Answer Raise the head of the
bed, turn the body, suction, wipe mouth
Changes in skin color while dying include? - Answer Fluctuate between hot and cold
may appear to have purple/blue blotches on skin
yellow or waxy skin
How can we help with a patient being cold? - Answer Do not give the patient an electric
blanket or heating pad; give more blankets.
How can we help a patient who is hot? - Answer use a fan, dampened cloth, and remove
blankets, may help breathing as well.
prn - Answer as needed
How will people have pain when dying? - Answer Patients may be in pain from the disease
medicines may not be working well
side effects of medicines
family may fear addiction
What are some problems with pain management in dying persons? - Answer The person
may feel that pain is deserved
may be scared of pain medicine
some think that pain medicine will kill them
the more pain they feel the closer they are to death
caregivers don't believe patients report of pain
Which medicine route is the last resort in someone that is in pain? - Answer Intramuscular
with Correct/Verified Answers 2025-
2026 Updated.
Palliative Care is - Answer care to relieve pain and suffering. It is not to relieve the patient of
illnesses. Medicine for pain relievers the pain and often hastens death.
Death is the ___________ ending of life - Answer irreversible
TRUE OR FALSE: Dying is the approach towards the end, start letting people - Answer True
The average stay in hospice is ________ - Answer 26 days, because early referrals do not
happen
Bereavement care - Answer Caring for family after death
TRUE OR FALSE: 1/ 10 people will die suddenly. - Answer TRUE
___________ of people will die from a prolonged illness - Answer 90%
The four things that matter most to family of a dying person are these quotes: - Answer
forgive me, I forgive you, thank you, and I love you
TRUE OR FALSE: The journey of dying can be predicted. - Answer FALSE
Withdrawal is the __________ - Answer Most common sign of death
Possible physical signs during dying - Answer weakness, fatigue, confusion, agitation, loss of
appetite,change in bowel and bladder function, breathing, skin temperature, and color
Dying people often display the phenomenon of __________ - Answer seeing those who have
passed before them
Withdrawal _______ the dying person for death - Answer perpares
A dying person sleeps _______ and talks ________ - Answer more, less
,The dying person make be _______ just before dying, which serves as a tease to the inevitable. -
Answer alert
The last sense to go is? - Answer hearing
Confusion, bad dreams, hallucination, or agitation may be caused by? - Answer medication,
low oxygen, metabolic changes, and dehydration
palliative euthenation - Answer kills them
palliative sedation - Answer deliberately inducing deep sleep, relief of intractable symptoms
and profound spiritual/physical anguish
terminal anguish - Answer inability to cure the pain of a dying person
Forcing fluids can __________ suffering of the dying person - Answer increase
TRUE OF FALSE: A dying person often has increased appetite and thirst for fluids. - Answer
FALSE, loss of appetite or inability to swallow may occur
Keep the mouth clean and moist by moisturizing the lips and mouth with what 4 things? -
Answer ice chips, water dipped q-tip applicator, and lip balm
The nurse of a dying person can do what to make the dying person have a therapeutic death? -
Answer encourage music, meditation, prayer, skin care, pain assessment, message, and
loving presence.
Constipation near death can occur from? - Answer pain medicine, decreased mobility,
slowed bowels, and decreased fluid
Urine may be? - Answer dark and sparse
Incontinence is? - Answer involuntary discharge of urine, occurs in a dying person often
How can nurses help with constipation and decreased urine output? - Answer encourage
fluids or give a suppository or catheter
, What is death rattle? - Answer An ominous sound that indicates the lungs are filling up with
fluid, may be gurgling
Periods of no breathing of up to ______ seconds can occur in the dying person - Answer 60
Someone with a death rattle may be _________ to let the excess saliva drain - Answer laid
on their side
How can a nurse make breathing easier in a dying patient - Answer Raise the head of the
bed, turn the body, suction, wipe mouth
Changes in skin color while dying include? - Answer Fluctuate between hot and cold
may appear to have purple/blue blotches on skin
yellow or waxy skin
How can we help with a patient being cold? - Answer Do not give the patient an electric
blanket or heating pad; give more blankets.
How can we help a patient who is hot? - Answer use a fan, dampened cloth, and remove
blankets, may help breathing as well.
prn - Answer as needed
How will people have pain when dying? - Answer Patients may be in pain from the disease
medicines may not be working well
side effects of medicines
family may fear addiction
What are some problems with pain management in dying persons? - Answer The person
may feel that pain is deserved
may be scared of pain medicine
some think that pain medicine will kill them
the more pain they feel the closer they are to death
caregivers don't believe patients report of pain
Which medicine route is the last resort in someone that is in pain? - Answer Intramuscular
