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Death and Dying Flashcards

1
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% people who die gently

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20%

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2
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Amount of deaths that are sudden

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1/4– 80% heart attacks

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Amount of long, drawn out detahs

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3/4– life saving medical technology

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4
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Agonal phase

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Suffering in first moments body can no longer support life

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5
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Clinical death

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Heart, breathing, brain stopped but can still resuscitate

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6
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Mortality

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Permanent death

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7
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Brain death

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All activity in brain and brain stem have stopped– irreversible

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Persistent vegetative state

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Activity in cerebral cortex has stopped but brain stem still active

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9
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5 attitudes towards death

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Permanence
Inevitability
Cessation
Applicability
Causation
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10
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Gender with more death anxiety

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women

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11
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Individual variation

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Personal philosophy of death
Consistency of religious practices and beliefs
Symbolic immortality

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12
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Kubler Ross Stages

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Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
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13
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Appropriate death

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Makes sense with person’s patetrn of living, preserves significant relationships and free of suffering

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14
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4 coping styles

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Dying as imprisonment
Mandate to live life even more fully
Part of life’s journey
Experience to be transformed

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15
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Countries that withhold diagnosis

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Eastern europe, south america, asia, midle east

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16
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% that die in hospitals

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40%

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17
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% that die in longterm care

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20%

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Amount of people that die at home

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1/4

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19
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Nursing home

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Emphasizes rehabilitation rather than terminal care

20
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Hospice

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Comprehensive support for dying and their families

21
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Euthanasia

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Ending the life of a person suffering from an incurable conditon

22
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Voluntary passive

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Withdraw treatment– advance medical directives

23
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Living will

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People specify the treatments they would want in case of terminal illness, coma or near death situation

24
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Durable power of attorney

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Appointment of another person to make health care decisions on one’s behalf

25
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Voluntary active

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Medical staff act to end life at patient’s request

26
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Assisted suicide

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Staff provide means for patient to end their own life

27
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Involuntary active

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Medical staff end life without patients consent

28
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Bereavement

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Experience of losing a loved one by death

29
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Grief

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Intense physical and psychological distress

30
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Mourning

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Culturally specified expression of bereaved person’s thoughts and feelings

31
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4 grief tasks

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Accept reality of loss
Work through pain of grief
Adjust to world without loved one
Develop inner bond with deceased and move on

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Avoidance

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Emotional anesthesia

33
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Confrontation

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More intense grief– preoccupied with thoughts o the death

34
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Restoration

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Dual process model of coping– alternate betwen dealing with emotions and attending to life changes

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Sudden, unexpected detah

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Avoidance from shock and disbelief

36
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Prolonged, expected

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Anticapatory grieving allows emotional preparation– display more persistent anxiety

37
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Disenfranchised grief

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Sense of loss without opportunity to mourn publicly or benefit from social support

38
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Bereavement overload

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Experiencing several deaths at once

39
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5 steps in resolving grief

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Give yourslef permission to feel loss
Accept social support
Be realistic about course of grieving
Remeber the deceased
Engage in new activities and relationships
40
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Prevalence of incontinence

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1/3– 2x more women

41
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% who seek help for incontinence

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25%- men after 4 years, women after 6

42
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Stress

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Urine leaks durng coughing, sneezing, laughing– overstrecthed pelvic muscles

43
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Urge

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Nerves contolling bladderare overactive and involuntay action of bladder muscle occur

44
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Overflow

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Enlarged prostate constricts urethra preventing bladder from emptying

45
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Functional

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Untimely urination due to medical conditons that impair thinking

46
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Mixed

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Usually stress and urge together

47
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Transient

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Temporality leakage occurs due to acute infection or medication

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