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NU 2320 Final Exam Study Guide
Solutions
Trauma Effects on families - Ans:✔✔-no warning with weather related trauma, affects family pets, little
research on trauma and families, families who choose to stay experience higher levels of distress
Why do town residents report difficulty concentrating and making decisions post weather related trauma
- Ans:✔✔-temporary symptoms from weather related trauma losses
Example of nursing role in assisting families who are experiencing trauma - Ans:✔✔-most current and in
the moment: ensuring elderly couple receives medications during trauma
Example of collaboration and mutuality of nurses during trauma informed care - Ans:✔✔-discussing
community resources with the client to find the best fit for them
Strategies of trauma informed care - Ans:✔✔-understand nurses own history of traumatic experiences,
collaborate with other professionals, be informed about long term effects of trauma
Which element of experiencing a disaster adds the most additional stress on families - Ans:✔✔-
Separation
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Priority question for someone who's husband was diagnosed with PTSD - Ans:✔✔-A: how long has your
family member been in war
B: have you felt fearful or unsafe around him
C: Do you talk freely with friends about him
D: is anyone else in your family been in war
Ans. B
Brother returns home from war with PTSD, sister asks when will he return to normal, what does nurse
say? - Ans:✔✔-A. give it a few months then he will be fine
B. You're probably depressed about this and need medication
C. Tell me more about your family and what you consider normal
D. Family counseling is needed for all of you without your brother
Ans. C
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Define Terminal Care - Ans:✔✔-care that focuses on management of symptoms to relieve suffering
during the last few days or weeks of life when it becomes apparent that the patient is in state of decline
and cure is not possible
Define Palliative Care - Ans:✔✔-care that focuses on improving quality of life for patients and families
associated with life-limiting illness, to help them live well through prevention and relief of suffering by
early identification and excellent assessment and treatment of pain and other symptoms
Define LIfe support - Ans:✔✔-care that includes extraordinary measures to prolong or sustain life such as
a ventilator
Define Hospice Care - Ans:✔✔-care that focuses on providing support to people in the final phase of a
terminal illness, with focus being on comfort and quality of life rather than cure. Usually only 6 months
or less from diagnosis
Dying at home is often preferred for terminal patients, but fearful for families, why? - Ans:✔✔-care at
home requires family members to perform medical care such as medication adminstration, family
members fear process of dying, family feels hospice is higher quality care, family fears burn out from
care
Barriers to end of life care - Ans:✔✔-lack of knowledge, delayed referral to hospice, not available in
some areas, acute care settings rarely focus on it, lack of support for nurses who frequently experience
death of patients
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NU 2320 Final Exam Study Guide
Solutions
Trauma Effects on families - Ans:✔✔-no warning with weather related trauma, affects family pets, little
research on trauma and families, families who choose to stay experience higher levels of distress
Why do town residents report difficulty concentrating and making decisions post weather related trauma
- Ans:✔✔-temporary symptoms from weather related trauma losses
Example of nursing role in assisting families who are experiencing trauma - Ans:✔✔-most current and in
the moment: ensuring elderly couple receives medications during trauma
Example of collaboration and mutuality of nurses during trauma informed care - Ans:✔✔-discussing
community resources with the client to find the best fit for them
Strategies of trauma informed care - Ans:✔✔-understand nurses own history of traumatic experiences,
collaborate with other professionals, be informed about long term effects of trauma
Which element of experiencing a disaster adds the most additional stress on families - Ans:✔✔-
Separation
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Priority question for someone who's husband was diagnosed with PTSD - Ans:✔✔-A: how long has your
family member been in war
B: have you felt fearful or unsafe around him
C: Do you talk freely with friends about him
D: is anyone else in your family been in war
Ans. B
Brother returns home from war with PTSD, sister asks when will he return to normal, what does nurse
say? - Ans:✔✔-A. give it a few months then he will be fine
B. You're probably depressed about this and need medication
C. Tell me more about your family and what you consider normal
D. Family counseling is needed for all of you without your brother
Ans. C
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Define Terminal Care - Ans:✔✔-care that focuses on management of symptoms to relieve suffering
during the last few days or weeks of life when it becomes apparent that the patient is in state of decline
and cure is not possible
Define Palliative Care - Ans:✔✔-care that focuses on improving quality of life for patients and families
associated with life-limiting illness, to help them live well through prevention and relief of suffering by
early identification and excellent assessment and treatment of pain and other symptoms
Define LIfe support - Ans:✔✔-care that includes extraordinary measures to prolong or sustain life such as
a ventilator
Define Hospice Care - Ans:✔✔-care that focuses on providing support to people in the final phase of a
terminal illness, with focus being on comfort and quality of life rather than cure. Usually only 6 months
or less from diagnosis
Dying at home is often preferred for terminal patients, but fearful for families, why? - Ans:✔✔-care at
home requires family members to perform medical care such as medication adminstration, family
members fear process of dying, family feels hospice is higher quality care, family fears burn out from
care
Barriers to end of life care - Ans:✔✔-lack of knowledge, delayed referral to hospice, not available in
some areas, acute care settings rarely focus on it, lack of support for nurses who frequently experience
death of patients
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