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Mod 10 - End Of Life Flashcards

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1
Q

Concept that an individual’s relationship to death includes people, places, times, objects and symbols

A

Kastenbaum’s Death System

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2
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T/F most societies do NOT see death as an end of existence

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True

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3
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Subconcept of death where all living functions cease

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Non-functionality

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Subconcept of death that once dead, cannot be brought back to life

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Finality

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5
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Subconcept of death that all living things die

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Universality

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Subconcept of death that death only applies to living things

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Applicability

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Subconcept of death that the breakdown of bodily function has internal or external causes

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Causation

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8
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200 years ago, how many children died before the age of 10?

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1 in 2

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9
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200 years ago, how many parents typically died before the child grew up?

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One

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10
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Where do 80% of US deaths occur?

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Hospital or institution

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T/F death is a process and doesn’t happen at one single point

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True

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12
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Neurological death when all electrical activity of the brain cease for a period of time

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Brain death

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13
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Irreversible cessation of activity in the brain and brain stem

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Brain death

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14
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What are the 3 phases of death?

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Agonal
Clinical
Mortality

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15
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Phase of death, characterized by rattled, breathing and gasping

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Agonal phase

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16
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Phase of death, in which heartbeat circulation, breathing and brain function stop but resuscitation is still possible

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Clinical death

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17
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Phase of death that is permanent and resuscitation is not possible

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Mortality

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18
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The act of painlessly ending the lives of individual suffering

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Euthanasia

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19
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Type of euthanasia where treatment is withheld (eg: remove life support)

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Passive

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20
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Type of euthanasia, when death is deliberately induced (eg: give high dose of morphine)

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Active

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21
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A process that requires the patient to self administer lethal medication

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Assisted suicide

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22
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The process in which patients think about, and communicate their preferences about end of life care

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Advanced care planning

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23
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A legal document that reflects the patient’s advance care planning

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Living Will

24
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A document, such as a Living Will that indicates whether or not life-sustaining procedures should be used

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Advance directive

25
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A more specific document that translates treatment preferences into medical orders

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Physician orders for life-sustaining treatment (POLST)

26
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Program committed to making end of life free from pain when death is imminent

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Hospice

27
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Care plan to reduce pain and suffering; may happen in conjunction with treatment for illness

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Palliative care

28
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Leading cause of infant death

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SIDS

29
Q

Most common cause of death in childhood

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Accident or illness

30
Q

Most common cause of death and adolescents and young adults

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Motor vehicle accidents, suicide and homicide

31
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Most common cause of death for middle age and older

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Cancer and cardiovascular disease

32
Q

How many Americans die in hospitals?

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50%

33
Q

How many Americans died in nursing homes

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20%

34
Q

At what age can children understand that death is irreversible

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4-5

35
Q

Around what age do many children develop a realistic, an accurate perception of death

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6

36
Q

What is the best strategy and discussing death with children?

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Honesty

37
Q

What age group fears death more than others 

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Middle-aged adults

38
Q

Who has a greater fear regarding death across the lifespan

A

Women

39
Q

T/F: personality will impact relationship with death

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True

40
Q

What are the Kubler Ross stages of dying?

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Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
(DABDA)

41
Q

T/F psychologist, believe it is best for dying individuals to know they are dying

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True

42
Q

As a healthcare provider, what are four things that can help a dying patient

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Truthfulness
Relax
Realistic hope
Touch

43
Q

The emotional numbness disbelief, anxiety, despair, sadness, and loneliness of losing someone loved

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Grief

44
Q

Are cognitive factors involved in the severity of grief

A

Yes

45
Q

Grief that involves enduring despair, and remains unresolved over an extended period of time

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Prolonged grief disorder

46
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Grief involving a deceased person who cannot be openly mourned

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Disenfranchised grief

47
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A model of coping with bereavement that emphasizes oscillation between two main dimensions

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Dual process

48
Q

Coping that focuses on the deceased individual; the positive and negative appraisal of the loss

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Loss-oriented

49
Q

Model of coping that focuses on change of identity (wife to widow) and need to develop new skills (paying bills)

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Restoration oriented

50
Q

Women are _______ times more likely to be widowed than men

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Three

51
Q

What is the risk of mortality after the death of a partner?

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48% higher

52
Q

If death of a partner is sudden, mortality increases for whom

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Men

53
Q

Grief, early death, financial loss, loneliness, physical and psychological disorders, increased, spirituality are effects of what?

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Losing a partner

54
Q

Seeking a reason for death and assigning blame

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Sense making

55
Q

Focusing on doing good after a person’s death (start a charity)

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Benefit finding

56
Q

Reminiscing after a persons death

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Continue bonds

57
Q

Percentage of people in the US, who elect to be cremated

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50%

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