Palliative & End of Life Care

Question 1

autonomy

Answer 1

self determination; the right to make choices

Question 2

bereavement

Answer 2

the period in which mourning takes place (usually around 12 months)

Question 3

grief

Answer 3

feelings about actual or anticipatory loss

Question 4

hospice

Answer 4

services provided for the patient & family for terminal illnesses with less than 6 months to live

Question 5

interdisciplinary collaboration

Answer 5

includes physician, patient, family, nurses, different therapies, as well as spirituality & pharmacy

Question 6

medicare hospice benefit

Answer 6

included in medicare part A (comprehensive disciplinary palliative care for those patients w a life expectancy of less than 6 months to live)
CANNOT be on hospice benefits & collect medicare as well

Question 7

mourning

Answer 7

expression of grief

Question 8

palliative care

Answer 8

patient-family centered approach hence to the physical, functional, psychological, spiritual, & existential aspects of serious illness & the primary focus is quality of life

Question 9

palliative sedation

Answer 9

a controlled or monitored administration of sedative s& opioids to reduce pain or level of consciousness when the conventional medications do not work and the patient does not respond

Question 10

terminal illness

Answer 10

progressive irreversible illness despite pure focused treatment