Q301-313
Palliative Care and Pain Management Quiz
Test your knowledge on palliative care and pain management with our comprehensive quiz. This quiz covers essential topics ranging from opioid usage to advanced care planning and more.
Whether you're a healthcare professional or just interested in the subject, you'll find this quiz engaging and educational!
- Multiple choice questions
- Focus on pain management strategies
- Insight into palliative care practices
Patients treated with opioids should receive routine prophylaxis for which side effect?
Constipation
Sedation
Urinary retention
Myoclonus
A 54-year-old patient with end-stage renal failure dies of sudden cardiac arrest 6 days after withdrawal of dialysis. This patient’s death was most likely caused by which of the following complications of renal failure?
Hyperphosphatemia
Hypercalcemia
Anemia
Hyperkalemia
Anticholinergic drugs help with which of the following pain syndromes?
Bone
Neuropathic
Visceral
Central
Which of the following statements is most appropriate with regard to advanced care planning in the terminally ill patient?
Advanced care planning discussions are outside the scope of practice for the palliative care nurse
Advanced care planning decisions should be made after a single conversation
The best time for advanced care planning discussions is late in the course of terminal illness
Advanced care planning should address issues beyond code status
Which of the following is most accurate about heat therapy for the treatment of pain?
Heat therapy is highly effective for treatment of pain associated with muscle spasm
Heat therapy is most effective for the treatment of neuropathic pain
Application of heat results in decreased blood flow to the treatment area
Heat therapy is most effective over areas with decreased sensation
Among the following, the sign most likely to indicate that the hospice nurse is not maintaining appropriate professional boundaries with a patient/family is?
Keeping in touch with a patient’s family after the patient has died
Crying at the bedside when the patient dies
Encouraging the patient’s loved ones to say goodbye as death approaches
Believing that he/she is the only nurse that can take good care of the patient
The medical team caring for a terminally ill cancer patient is hesitant about broaching the topic of palliative care team consultation with the patient. Initial discussion of palliative care team consultation should include emphasis on all of the following except:
The fact that there is nothing more the medical team can do for the patient
Information the palliative care team can provide that helps ensure that the patient is fully informed about his/her choices
Expertise of the palliative care team in managing the disease-related symptoms the patient is experiencing
The expertise of the palliative care team in helping the patient maximize the his/her quality of life
With chronic use, in relation to oral morphine, injectable morphine is?
Equally potent
10 times as potent
15 times as potent
2 times as potent.
Methadone should be used for relieving cancer pain when the patient has not obtained relief from which of the following?
Codeine or hydrocodone
High-dosage IV/SC morphine
Multidrug spinal infusions
Rhizotomy or cingulotomy
Patients often describe bone pain as ?
Shooting
Deep and aching
Spastic or cramping
Colicky.
Which of the following classes of drugs can be effective adjuvants to morphine when treating specific types of pain?
Antihypertensives
Anticonvulsants
Cholinergics
Antacids
To calculate an effective initial daily dosage of SC hydromorphone, divide the patient’s daily dosage of oral morphine by
20
10
5
2
To calculate an effective initial daily dosage of oral methadone, divide the patient’s daily dosage of oral morphine by?
20
10
5
3
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