Palliative Care and Cognition

Question 1

Concept of Palliative Care

Answer 1

A holistic approach to care that focuses on the physical, emotional, social, cultural, and spiritual needs of both the patient and his or her family members across the illness trajectory

Question 2

Concept of Cognition

Answer 2

Mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through though, experience, and the senses

Question 3

Palliative Care Assessment
(Noticing)

Question 4

Palliative Care HOPE
(Noticing)

Question 5

Palliative Care Analysis
(Interpreting)

Question 6

Palliative Care
(Responding)
Managing nausea/vomiting

Question 7

Palliative Care
(Responding)
Managing symptoms of distress

Question 8

Palliative Care
(Responding)
Managing pain

Question 9

Palliative Care
(Responding)
Managing weakness

Question 10

Palliative Care
(Responding)
Managing dyspnea

Question 11

Palliative Care
(Responding)
Managing seizures

Question 12

Palliative Care
(Responding)
Managing agitation/delirium

Question 13

Palliative Care
(Reflecting)
Outcomes

Question 14

Palliative Care
Hospice

Question 15

Cognition
Risk Factors

Question 17

Cognition (Noticing)
Diagnostics

Question 18

Cognition (Interpreting)
Consequences

Question 19

Cognition (Responding)
Prevention/Patient Education

Question 20

Cognition (Responding)
Pharmacological

Question 21

Cognition (Responding)
Nonpharmacological

Answer 21

Cognition (Reflecting)
Outcomes

Question 22

Delirium
Pathophysiology

Question 23

Delirium
Causes

Question 24

Delirium (Noticing)
Assessment

Question 25

Delirium (Noticing)
Diagnostics

Question 26

Delirium (Interpreting)
Analysis

Question 27

Delirium (Responding)
Nonpharmacological Management

Question 28

Delirium (Responding)
Pharmacological Management

Question 29

Delirium (Reflecting)
Outcomes