All Stat Home Health - Going from Cure to Comfort Inservice Quiz
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Question 1. What percentage of deaths occur in hospitals?
A. less than 10%
B. exactly 2%
C. none
D. more than 60%
Question 2. Of the patients who die in hospitals, how many have spent part or all of their last 3 days in ICU?
A. almost one half
B. none
C. all
D. less than one sixth
Question 3. What percentage of hospitals in the US offer palliative care programs?
A. almost 66%
B. almost 33%
C. all
D. none
Question 4. The World Health Organization has defined palliative care as the active total care of patients:
A. whose disease no longer responds to curative treatment for their disease
B. who are cured
C. who are being discharged
D. on first admissions only
Question 5. The interdisciplinary palliative care team includes all of the following EXCEPT:
A. clergy
B. nurse
C. pharmacist
D. physician
Answer the following questions either True or False.
Question 6. The primary barrier to keeping patients relatively pain-free is inadequate pain assessment.
A. True
B. False
Question 7. The "death rattle" is thought to be caused by swallowing incorrectly.
A. True
B. False
Question 8. The secretions associated with the "death rattle" can be reduced by administering sublingual anticholinergic agents.
A. True
B. False
Question 9. Reconnection is the process when families of dying patients work through any lingering difficulties in their relationships.
A. True
B. False
Question 10. Grief is the way you show the pain you are feeling.
A. True
B. False