Smith Seminars Online Caring for the Dying Patient Test

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 Part 1 - Your Information

 

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 Part 2 - The Test

 

1) Effective care for dying patients usually involves a clinical team because:

A) No one caregiver is available 24 hours a day

B) Comprehensive and reliable care requires the skills and perspectives of several disciplines

C) Hospice teams anticipate potential problems and make appropriate arrangements

D) All of the above

2) Patients ill enough to require hospice :

A) May require assistance with daily activities

B) May be completely dependent

C) May need help from home health aides and volunteers

D) All the above

3) Legal and ethical concerns are important and health care practitioners should:

A) Know local laws and institutional policy governing living wills and durable powers of attorney

B) Know procedures for cooking the patient’s favorite meals

C) Use knowledge to help them ensure that the patient's wishes are less important than the family's wishes

D) All the above

4) Factors about pain control include:

A) Patients perceive pain identical

B) Long-acting opioids are best for long-lasting pain

C) Patients never develop substantial tolerance to the respiratory depressant effects of morphine

D) None of the above

5) Factors about dyspnea include:

A) It is one of the most feared symptoms

B) Morphine helps reduce breathlessness in a patient

C) A & B
D) None of the above

6) Conditions that may cause poor intake that can be easily treated include:
A) Gastritis and constipation
B) Toothache and oral candidiasis
C) Pain and nausea
D) All the above

7) Death is particularly stressful when interpersonal conflicts:
A) Keep patients and family members from sharing their last moments together in peace
B) Can lead to excessive guilt or inability to grieve in survivors
C) Can cause anguish in patient
D) All the above

8) Grief:
A) Often starts with fears about loss of control, separation, and suffering
B) Often starts with denial
C) Is a normal process that usually begins before an anticipated death
D) All the above

9) The do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order placed in a patient's medical record:
A) Informs the medical staff that CPR should not be done
B) Has been not useful in preventing unnecessary and unwanted invasive treatment at the end of life
C) A & B
D) None of the above

10) Living will:
A) Expresses preferences for end-of-life care
B) Designates a surrogate decision maker
C) Compels health care practitioners to provide medical care that is medically or ethically unwarranted
D) None of the above

 

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