Chapter 19

Question 1

Persistent Vegetative State

Answer 1

When higher cortical functioning (thinking and feeling) stops while brain stem functioning (heart beat and breathing) continues

Question 2

Brain Death

Answer 2

Death that is considered to have occurred when all brain activity (brain waves) stop for a specified period of time

Question 3

Advance Directive

Answer 3

Legal document that says what kind of life support they will get if they become terminally ill and can’t communicate their wants

Question 4

Living Will

Answer 4

Directions about treatments they want if they become terminally ill and death is imminent

Question 5

Durable Power of Attorney

Answer 5

Specific person makes a decision on behalf of terminally ill patient if unable to communicate their wants

Question 6

Health Care Proxy

Answer 6

Someone legally designated to make health care decisions on behalf of an ill patient

Question 7

Do Not Resuscitate (DNR)

Answer 7

Order from the physician to all medical personnel that no one should resuscuitate the patient if they experience cardiac arrest or respiratory arrest

Question 8

Euthanasia

Answer 8

Intentional act of ending a terminally ill person’s life to end suffering

Question 9

Passive Euthanasia

Answer 9

Getting rid of life support for terminally ill patient that prolongs patients life

Question 10

Active Euthanasia

Answer 10

Actions that deliberately induce death in a terminally ill patient (injections)

Question 11

Physician-assisted Dying

Answer 11

Doctors helping patients die by prescribing lethal dose of medicine or toxic gas that patients self-administer

Question 12

Stages of Dying

Answer 12

Emotions individuals experience while struggling to accept their impending death
Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance

Question 13

Good Death

Answer 13

Process of death that makes patients comfortable, treats them with dignity, provides support for family, and helps patient have closure

Question 14

Palliative Care

Answer 14

Care designed to improve quality of life for patients with life threatening illnesses by providing relief from physical discomfort and emotional support for patients and family members

Question 15

Hospice Care

Answer 15

Care for terminally ill who have less than 6 months to live

• nurses, doctors, social workers, counselors, etc.
• manages patients discomfort, respect patients needs, concerns, and personal priorities, provide support, help patient prepare for death

Question 16

Bereavement

Answer 16

Objective experience of having lost a loved one

Question 17

Grief

Answer 17

Painful emotional responses to loss of loved one

-sorrow, yearning, anxiety, guilt, shock, numbness

Question 18

Dual Process Model of Coping with Berearement

Answer 18

Bereaved individuals need to cope with their feelings as well as changed realities of their lives

Question 19

Mourning

Answer 19

Manner in which a person expresses grief, often shaped by cultural practices