Palliative Care Nclex Questions - Med Surg Final |12 Questions| With Correct Answers.

An 80-year-old female patient is receiving palliative care for heart failure. The primary purpose(s) of her receiving palliative care is (are) to (select all that apply) A) Improve her quality of life. B) Assess her coping ability with disease. C) Have time to teach patient and family about disease. D) Focus on reducing the severity of disease symptoms. E) Provide care that the family is unwilling or unable to give. {Ans: A, D}The family attorney informed a patient's adult children and wife that the patient did not have an advance directive after he suffered a serious stroke. Who is responsible for making the decision about EOL measures when the patient cannot communicate his or her specific wishes? A) Notary and attorney B) Physician and family C) Wife and adult children D) Physician and nursing staff {Ans: C}The hospice nurse visits with the wife of a dying patient. The nurse is most concerned if the patient's wife makes which statement? A) "I don't think that I can live without my husband to take care of me." B) "I wonder if expressing my sadness makes my husband feel worse." C) "We have shared so much that it is hard to