NUR 213 Exam 3 2026 Exam
Questions and Correct Answers |
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Many patients, families, and clinicians see death as what happens when - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔medicine fails
End-of-Life Care (Hospice care): - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Addresses
comprehensive symptom management
Psychosocial care
,Spiritual support
Typically done in outpatient setting (home health) or inpatient facility
(limited number)
QUALITY of life
ALWAYS the goal for clients, it is no different in end-of-life care - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Autonomy
Closed awareness - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔patient is unaware of their terminal
state
Suspected awareness - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔patient suspects others know and
attempts to find out details
Mutual pretense awareness - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔patient, family, and health
care professionals are aware that the patient is dying, but pretend
otherwise
Open awareness - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔patient, family, and health care
professionals are aware that the patient is dying and openly acknowledge
this reality
Hospice care - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Death must be accepted.
,The patient's total care is best managed by an interdisciplinary team whose
members communicate regularly with one another.
Pain and other symptoms of terminal illness must be managed.
The patient and the family should be viewed as a single unit of care.
Home care of the dying is necessary.
Bereavement care must be provided to family members.
Research and education should be ongoing.
General - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Serious, progressive illness
Limited life expectancy
Informed choice of palliative care over cure-focused treatment
Hospice Specific - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Presence of a family member or other
caregiver continuously in the home when the patient is no longer able to
safely care for himself or herself (some hospices have created special
services within their programs for patients who live alone, although this
varies widely).
Medicare and Medicaid Hospice Benefits - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Medicare Part
A; Medical Assistance eligibility
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, Waiver of traditional Medicare/Medicaid benefits for the terminal illness
Life expectancy of ≤6 months
Physician certification of terminal illness
Care must be provided by a Medicare-certified hospice program
Routine home care: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔All services provided are included in
the daily rate to the hospice.
Inpatient respite care: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A 5-day inpatient stay, provided on
an occasional basis to relieve the family caregivers.
Continuous care: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Continuous nursing care provided in the
home for the management of a medical crisis. Care reverts to the routine
home care level after the crisis is resolved. (For example, seizure activity
develops and a nurse is placed in the home continuously to monitor the
patient and administer medications. After 72 hours, the seizure activity is
under control, the family has been instructed how to care for the patient,
and the continuous nursing care is discontinued.)
General inpatient care: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Inpatient stay for symptom
management that cannot be provided in the home. This is not subject to the
guidelines for a standard hospital inpatient stay.
Questions and Correct Answers |
New Update
Many patients, families, and clinicians see death as what happens when - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔medicine fails
End-of-Life Care (Hospice care): - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Addresses
comprehensive symptom management
Psychosocial care
,Spiritual support
Typically done in outpatient setting (home health) or inpatient facility
(limited number)
QUALITY of life
ALWAYS the goal for clients, it is no different in end-of-life care - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Autonomy
Closed awareness - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔patient is unaware of their terminal
state
Suspected awareness - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔patient suspects others know and
attempts to find out details
Mutual pretense awareness - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔patient, family, and health
care professionals are aware that the patient is dying, but pretend
otherwise
Open awareness - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔patient, family, and health care
professionals are aware that the patient is dying and openly acknowledge
this reality
Hospice care - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Death must be accepted.
,The patient's total care is best managed by an interdisciplinary team whose
members communicate regularly with one another.
Pain and other symptoms of terminal illness must be managed.
The patient and the family should be viewed as a single unit of care.
Home care of the dying is necessary.
Bereavement care must be provided to family members.
Research and education should be ongoing.
General - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Serious, progressive illness
Limited life expectancy
Informed choice of palliative care over cure-focused treatment
Hospice Specific - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Presence of a family member or other
caregiver continuously in the home when the patient is no longer able to
safely care for himself or herself (some hospices have created special
services within their programs for patients who live alone, although this
varies widely).
Medicare and Medicaid Hospice Benefits - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Medicare Part
A; Medical Assistance eligibility
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, Waiver of traditional Medicare/Medicaid benefits for the terminal illness
Life expectancy of ≤6 months
Physician certification of terminal illness
Care must be provided by a Medicare-certified hospice program
Routine home care: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔All services provided are included in
the daily rate to the hospice.
Inpatient respite care: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A 5-day inpatient stay, provided on
an occasional basis to relieve the family caregivers.
Continuous care: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Continuous nursing care provided in the
home for the management of a medical crisis. Care reverts to the routine
home care level after the crisis is resolved. (For example, seizure activity
develops and a nurse is placed in the home continuously to monitor the
patient and administer medications. After 72 hours, the seizure activity is
under control, the family has been instructed how to care for the patient,
and the continuous nursing care is discontinued.)
General inpatient care: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Inpatient stay for symptom
management that cannot be provided in the home. This is not subject to the
guidelines for a standard hospital inpatient stay.
