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End of Life/Laryngectomy

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what is health care profs attitudes towards death   hope pt would discover on own  
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what is closed awareness? suspected awareness? mutual presence awareness? open awareness?   closed: guard secret, pt not able to cope suspected: pt suspects mutual: all aware but pretend otherwise open: acknowledge pt is dying  
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what is key factor in pt and family accepting and planning for death   prognosis  
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what are barriers to end of life care   cure focused by health care, money, culture, pshychological coping responses, denial  
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what is assisted suicide   providing person means to end his own life. Oregon(Death wtih Dignity Act)/Washington only states. Nurses can't assist violate Code for Nurses  
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what is interdisciplinary collaboration? Multidisciplinary are?   comm and cooperation among disciplines to single care plan. Multi: w/o coordination and integration  
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All hospice care is   palliative, but not all palliative is hospice  
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what is hospice vs palliative care   hospice: in home to terminally ill and fams, pt have irreversible illness and must opt for palliative, not cure care. Last 6mos of life Palliative: can be in hospital/long term/ hospice  
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what are 4 levels of hospice care covered by medicare/caid   routine home care, inpatient respite care(5 day inpt stay), continuous care(mg med crisis), general inpt care(symptom mgmt)  
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Spiritual assessment FICA   Faith/belief Importance/influence Community Address in care: addressing spirituality, maintain hope  
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what are advance directives   written docs allow competent people to document prefs of med tx at end of life. Pt Self-Determination Act: requires health care ask if pt has adv directives  
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what is durable power of atty   signer appoints/authorize ind to make med decisions on behalf  
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what is living will   type of adv directive which pt documents tx prefs  
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Nsg response to "Am I dying?"   eye contact and say, "This must be very difficult for you." "Tell me more about what's on your mind."  
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Breaking bad news SPIKES   S-setting: private, sit down P-perception: identify with I-Invitaiton: to share K-Knowledge: give news in small chunks, warn, tailor rate given E-Empathy S-Strategy/Summary: ck for understanding  
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what are hope fostering categories? Hope-hindering?   fostering: love of fam/friends, spiritual/faith, goals, maintain ind, humor, memoris Hindering: isolation, pain, devalue  
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Signs of approaching death   refuse food/fluid, decr UO, week, confused, impaired vision/hearing, secretions in throat, incontinence, decr temp control  
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what is palliative sedation   eliminate signs of discomfort  
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how help noisy gurgling, breathing, moaning   reposition, fam reasurrance  
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how does body change on death?   dusky/bluish, waxen, cool  
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What is the Kubler Ross stages of grieving   denial, anger/bargaining, depression, acceptance  
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what are six key processes to allow people to accept loss   recognition, reaction, recollection, relinquishing, readjustment, reinvestment  
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What kind of cells is usually associated wtih head and neck Ca? what are categories: supraglottic, glottic, subglottic?   sqamous cell supra- false vocal cords above vocal cords, aspiration, preserves voice glottic- true vocal cords sub- below vocal cords  
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what is early sign of larynx cancer   affected voice, not enlarged cervical nodes  
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what should be included in nsg planning for larynx ca?   teaching for post op communication, humidification,  
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