Chapter 14: Death and Dying
You would expect a client experiencing maladaptive grief to have:
a. Self-awareness
b. Compulsive behavior
c. Unresolved conflict
d. Auditory hallucination - correct answer-c. Unresolved conflict
You are caring for a client whose husband died 2 days ago. The period following a loss is
called:
a. Somatic
b. Mourning
c. Depression
d. Detachment - correct answer-b. Mourning
The client assigned to your care is having bereavement counseling. You understand that this
client has recently:
a. Sustained a loss
b. Had hospice care
c. Received palliative care
d. Signed a do not resuscitate (DNR) order - correct answer-a. Sustained a loss
At report, you are told that the patient has just experienced a physical loss. You understand
this to mean loss of:
a. Work
b. Status
c. One's role
d. Spouse - correct answer-d. Spouse
A client gave birth to a stillborn child, gestational age 7 months. To help the parents cope
with the loss, it would be best if the health-care professional:
a. Prevents the parents from seeing the child
b. Prevents the parents from holding the child
c. Gives the parents time to see and hold the child
d. Avoids discussing the incident - correct answer-c. Gives the parents time to see and hold
the child
Which religious group is least likely to seek medical treatment during the dying period to
prolong life:
a. Jehovah Witness
b. Christian Science
c. Roman Catholic
d. Seventh Day Adventist - correct answer-b. Christian Science
Your client has just expired. The charge person requests that you not disturb the body for 8
hours. This is because the client follows which faith?
, a. Hinduism
b. Buddhism
c. Islam
d. Orthodoxy - correct answer-b. Buddhism
The social worker and the dying patient have just completed a document in which the patient
appoints someone to carry out his or her end-of-life wishes. This document is known as a:
a. Living will
b. Durable Power of Attorney
c. Do not resuscitate (DNR) order
d. Consent for treatment form - correct answer-b. Durable Power of Attorney
A terminally ill elderly client's family is deliberating withholding lifesaving medical treatment.
This is an act of:
a. Palliative care
b. Euthanasia
c. Do not resuscitate (DNR) order
d. Durable Power of Attorney - correct answer-b. Euthanasia
A terminally ill patient has just been placed in hospice care. The family questions you about
the objective for this unit. You would explain the emphasis is on:
a. Care
b. Comfort
c. Shortening the life span
d. Dying as an abnormal process - correct answer-b. Comfort
Which one of your dying patients would be offered last rites:
a. Jehovah Witness
b. Seventh Day Adventist
c. Christian Science
d. Orthodoxy - correct answer-d. Orthodoxy
The health-care worker is correct if she suggests which of the following strategies to help a
person cope with a loss?
a. Have a period of isolation.
b. Avoid making major life changes.
c. Decrease sleep time.
d. Avoid expressing emotional feelings. - correct answer-b. Avoid making major life changes
Your client's visitors are ready to leave and request that you call the elevator and punch the
elevator key pad to stop at the ground floor. They explain that today is their Sabbath day.
This family most likely is practicing:
a. Greek Orthodoxy
b. Seventh Day Adventist
c. Jehovah Witness
d. Jewish Orthodoxy - correct answer-d. Jewish Orthodoxy
You would expect a client experiencing maladaptive grief to have:
a. Self-awareness
b. Compulsive behavior
c. Unresolved conflict
d. Auditory hallucination - correct answer-c. Unresolved conflict
You are caring for a client whose husband died 2 days ago. The period following a loss is
called:
a. Somatic
b. Mourning
c. Depression
d. Detachment - correct answer-b. Mourning
The client assigned to your care is having bereavement counseling. You understand that this
client has recently:
a. Sustained a loss
b. Had hospice care
c. Received palliative care
d. Signed a do not resuscitate (DNR) order - correct answer-a. Sustained a loss
At report, you are told that the patient has just experienced a physical loss. You understand
this to mean loss of:
a. Work
b. Status
c. One's role
d. Spouse - correct answer-d. Spouse
A client gave birth to a stillborn child, gestational age 7 months. To help the parents cope
with the loss, it would be best if the health-care professional:
a. Prevents the parents from seeing the child
b. Prevents the parents from holding the child
c. Gives the parents time to see and hold the child
d. Avoids discussing the incident - correct answer-c. Gives the parents time to see and hold
the child
Which religious group is least likely to seek medical treatment during the dying period to
prolong life:
a. Jehovah Witness
b. Christian Science
c. Roman Catholic
d. Seventh Day Adventist - correct answer-b. Christian Science
Your client has just expired. The charge person requests that you not disturb the body for 8
hours. This is because the client follows which faith?
, a. Hinduism
b. Buddhism
c. Islam
d. Orthodoxy - correct answer-b. Buddhism
The social worker and the dying patient have just completed a document in which the patient
appoints someone to carry out his or her end-of-life wishes. This document is known as a:
a. Living will
b. Durable Power of Attorney
c. Do not resuscitate (DNR) order
d. Consent for treatment form - correct answer-b. Durable Power of Attorney
A terminally ill elderly client's family is deliberating withholding lifesaving medical treatment.
This is an act of:
a. Palliative care
b. Euthanasia
c. Do not resuscitate (DNR) order
d. Durable Power of Attorney - correct answer-b. Euthanasia
A terminally ill patient has just been placed in hospice care. The family questions you about
the objective for this unit. You would explain the emphasis is on:
a. Care
b. Comfort
c. Shortening the life span
d. Dying as an abnormal process - correct answer-b. Comfort
Which one of your dying patients would be offered last rites:
a. Jehovah Witness
b. Seventh Day Adventist
c. Christian Science
d. Orthodoxy - correct answer-d. Orthodoxy
The health-care worker is correct if she suggests which of the following strategies to help a
person cope with a loss?
a. Have a period of isolation.
b. Avoid making major life changes.
c. Decrease sleep time.
d. Avoid expressing emotional feelings. - correct answer-b. Avoid making major life changes
Your client's visitors are ready to leave and request that you call the elevator and punch the
elevator key pad to stop at the ground floor. They explain that today is their Sabbath day.
This family most likely is practicing:
a. Greek Orthodoxy
b. Seventh Day Adventist
c. Jehovah Witness
d. Jewish Orthodoxy - correct answer-d. Jewish Orthodoxy
