Medical-Surgical Nursing 1e Hoffman - Sullivan Test Bank
Medical-Surgical Nursing 1e Hoffman - Sullivan Test Bank
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Chapter 5: Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 1. A competent older adult patient has a living will that expresses the patient’s desire to avoid resuscitation and heroic life support measures. The patient’s family, however, is not supportive of this directive and plans to contest the living will. Which nursing action is appropriate based on the current situation?
| 1) | Notify the hospital attorney. |
| 2) | Contact the Social Services department. |
| 3) | Place the document on the patient’s medical record. |
| 4) | Explain to the patient that the conflict could invalidate the document. |
____ 2. The nurse is providing care for a Catholic patient who has suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage and is not expected to survive. Which intervention by the nurse is most appropriate?
| 1) | Contact a priest to deliver the Sacrament of the Sick. |
| 2) | Make plans for the family to wash the body after death. |
| 3) | Contact a rabbi so that the patient can participate in prayer. |
| 4) | Discuss the need to cremate the patient, as burial is not accepted in this faith. |
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