End-of-life Flashcards
1
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Advance directives
A
Instructions about a person’s wishes, goals, and values regarding what will be done in case he or she becomes incapable of making medical decisions
2
Q
Living will
A
Specifies desired medical treatment
3
Q
Healthcare proxy
A
Designates a person to make healthcare decisions
4
Q
Durable power of attorney
A
Designated person to make financial transactions
5
Q
Hospice care
A
- life expectancy of six months or less
- does not include curative or life-prolonging measures
- reliance on family and visiting nurses, care is usually provided in the home
- bereavement support
6
Q
Palliative care
A
- focus on comfort care
- curative or life-prolonging
- no time restrictions
- do not have to be terminal
- care teams oversee care
- administered in hospitals, LTC facilities, and extended care facilities
- bereavement support
7
Q
S/s of end of life
A
- coolness
- confusion
- sleeping
- incontinence
- restlessness
- congestion (death rattle)
- urine decrease
- intake decrease
- change in breathing
- fever
