D047 Unit 6 Quiz

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End of Life Care Quiz

Test your knowledge about end of life care and explore the important aspects of patient preferences, advance directives, and various care options available. This quiz will guide you through vital concepts that impact patients facing terminal conditions.

Highlights of the quiz:

Understand hospice and palliative care differences.
Learn about advance directives and their significance.
Discover the role of autonomy in patient care.

10 Questions2 MinutesCreated by CaringHeart257

Patients have less than six months to live and are considered to have a poor functional status with regard to their terminal condition.

Palliative Care

Hospice Care

Terminal Care

Transitional Care

Refers to patients that may have more than six months to live but have decided to utilize comfort care measures in their treatment plan.

Palliative Care

Hospice Care

Transition Care

Home Health

A patient who has been diagnosed with a terminal illness is going to enter hospice. What services should the care coordinator provide?

A follow-up appointment with the patient's primary care physician

A series of appointments with a wide range of specialists

Nursing care, home health aide, and counseling

An infusion center appointment and follow up.

Ignite and support end of life dialogue and discuss advance directives with patients. Adhere to advanced directives and the patient’s wishes regarding treatment and information sharing.

Beneficence

Nonmaleficence

Fidelity

Autonomy

Understand that the patient’s best interest is not always the patient’s desires

Beneficence

Fidelity

Nonmaleficence

Autonomy

This is when medical staff aim to avoid inflicting personal opinions regarding their patients’ care. Allowing patients to make their own decisions without interjecting personal biases or thoughts.

Beneficence

Nonmaleficence

Autonomy

Fidelity

Discusses patients wishes regarding end-of-life care including methods of resuscitation, medications, dialysis, and organ donation

Durable Power of Attorney

Special Power of Attorney

Living Will

Healthcare Power of Attorney

Power to handle financial, estate planning, business, life insurance, claims, and employment matters. This POA is appointed to allow another person/organization to handle legal matters when an individual is out of the country, physically or mentally incapable of managing affairs, and/or in the event of a person’s death.

General Power of Attorney

Durable Power of Attorney

Special Power of Attorney

Healthcare Power of Attorney

If a patient does not want life-saving measures to be taken, such as CPR, what is the correct order to place?

Advanced Directive

DNR

Referral to a religious leader

Referral to a specialist for emergency measures

Allows patients to die on their own terms with the assistance of medical staff.

Assisted-suicide

Active euthanasia

Physician-assisted suicide

Death with Dignity

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