Hospice & Palliative Care questions with answers
What is Palliative care? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Any form of care
of treatment that focuses on reducing the severity of the disease symptoms,
rather than trying to delay or reverse the progression of the disease or provide a
cure.
What are the goals for Palliative Care? (2) - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔1) Prevent suffering 2) improve quality of life for patients with serious, life-
limiting illnesses
Who is palliative care for? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔For patients and
their families during any stage of a life-limiting illness, acute, chronic or
terminal
What is Hospice Care? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔A concept of care
that provides compassion concern & support for the dying
What does hospice do? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Provides support
and care for persons in the last phases of a terminal disease so they might live
as fully & comfortable as possible.
What is the major difference between palliative and hospice care? - ....🔰
VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Palliative care allows a person to simultaneously
receive curative & palliative treatments. Hospice is provide once a person
decides to forgo curative treatments.
, What are the two criteria for admissions to hospice? - ....🔰VERIFIED
ANSWERS.... ✔✔1)Pt. must desire the services and agree in writing that only
hospice care (not curative care) can be used to treat their terminal illness.
2) Pt. must be considered eligible for hospice by having a physician certify the
pt.'s prognosis is terminal w/ less then 6 mo. to live.
EOL (End of Life) care provides what 4 things? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔1) comfort & supportive care during the dying process
2) improve the quality of the pt's remaining life
3) help ensure a dignified death
4) provide emotional support to the family.
What happens to metabolism in EOL process - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔it is reduced
In the EOL process the body slows down - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔all functions until they stop
What can happen with respiration's in the EOL process? - ....🔰VERIFIED
ANSWERS.... ✔✔They may be rapid or slow, shallow and irregular
During the EOL process breath sounds can? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔become wet and noisy both audibly and on auscultation (death rattle)
What causes the death rattle? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Mouth
breathing and a mucus buildup
What is Palliative care? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Any form of care
of treatment that focuses on reducing the severity of the disease symptoms,
rather than trying to delay or reverse the progression of the disease or provide a
cure.
What are the goals for Palliative Care? (2) - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔1) Prevent suffering 2) improve quality of life for patients with serious, life-
limiting illnesses
Who is palliative care for? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔For patients and
their families during any stage of a life-limiting illness, acute, chronic or
terminal
What is Hospice Care? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔A concept of care
that provides compassion concern & support for the dying
What does hospice do? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Provides support
and care for persons in the last phases of a terminal disease so they might live
as fully & comfortable as possible.
What is the major difference between palliative and hospice care? - ....🔰
VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Palliative care allows a person to simultaneously
receive curative & palliative treatments. Hospice is provide once a person
decides to forgo curative treatments.
, What are the two criteria for admissions to hospice? - ....🔰VERIFIED
ANSWERS.... ✔✔1)Pt. must desire the services and agree in writing that only
hospice care (not curative care) can be used to treat their terminal illness.
2) Pt. must be considered eligible for hospice by having a physician certify the
pt.'s prognosis is terminal w/ less then 6 mo. to live.
EOL (End of Life) care provides what 4 things? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔1) comfort & supportive care during the dying process
2) improve the quality of the pt's remaining life
3) help ensure a dignified death
4) provide emotional support to the family.
What happens to metabolism in EOL process - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔it is reduced
In the EOL process the body slows down - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔all functions until they stop
What can happen with respiration's in the EOL process? - ....🔰VERIFIED
ANSWERS.... ✔✔They may be rapid or slow, shallow and irregular
During the EOL process breath sounds can? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔become wet and noisy both audibly and on auscultation (death rattle)
What causes the death rattle? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Mouth
breathing and a mucus buildup
