Deck 1: Palliative and Hospice Care Settings Dawn Joosten

Question 1

Based on their definition and function, what are the two similar factors associated with both palliative and hospice care?

A) Death and dying
B) Treatment and non-treatment
C) Interdisciplinary care teams and dying
D) Pain and symptom management

Answer 1

Pain and symptom management

Question 2

What is the goal of hospice care?

A) To improve services
B) To improve health care for the dying
C) To maximize the quality of life for patients
D) To improve access to care services

Answer 2

To maximize the quality of life for patients

Question 3

Who is the central focus in both hospice and palliative care?

A) Clients
B) Family
C) Service
D) Community

Answer 3

Family

Question 4

What is the key feature of hospice care?

A) Patient rights
B) Patient self-determination
C) Patient access to medical, psychosocial, and spiritual aspects of care
D) Family access to medical, psychosocial, and spiritual aspects of care

Question 5

What is the goal of palliative care?

A) To provide holistic options to care
B) To minimize pain and symptoms
C) To issue care concurrent with diagnosis of serious illness
D) To work with clients who have Do Not Resuscitate orders

Question 6

Interdisciplinary teams are important to palliative and hospice workers. These teams are made up of social workers, nurses, physicians, chaplains, and others. Which of the following group of workers is NOT largely part of an interdisciplinary team?

A) Doctors
B) Police officers
C) Home health aids
D) Registered nurses

Question 7

Palliative and hospice workers rely on the knowledge and experience of clinical social workers within the interdisciplinary team. What skill can they provide in this environment that is beneficial at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels?

A) Advocacy
B) Research
C) Theory
D) Professional practice

Question 8

What are the three most common social work theories/perspectives in palliative and hospice care?

A) Ecological, resiliency, and restorative justice
B) Systems, resiliency, and role theory
C) Systems, strengths, and developmental
D) Ecological, systems, and lifespan perspective

Question 9

Which perspective provides a lens to understand multiple factors outside the medical setting that impact care while informing holistic assessment?

A) Systems theory
B) Lifespan perspective
C) Ecological theory
D) Role theory

Question 10

Hospice care was introduced in the United States in 1965 by Dame Cicely Saunders.

Question 11

The first grassroots hospice movement of 1974 involved the Yale School of Nursing.

Question 12

One of the provisions for enrollment in hospice care is that a patient is expected to die within six months.

Question 13

A Do Not Resuscitate order can be an acceptable reason for hospice care enrollment in some states.

Question 14

The third step of implementing care with a client is to conduct an assessment, such as a biopsychosocial-spiritual assessment, in order to learn more about the patient's family situation and circumstances.

Question 15

A biopsychosocial-spiritual assessment is informed by stage and task-based grief and loss theories.

Question 16

The four factors to examine in the second phase of the biopsychosocial-spiritual assessment are health, family, diversity, and grief and loss history.

Question 17

The third phase of the biopsychosocial-spiritual assessment is to examine the extent of completion of the patient's end-of-life documents such as Do Not Resuscitate orders, living wills, and designated healthcare representatives.

Question 18

Because of its importance to patients, palliative care and hospice services are overutilized.

Question 19

The keys to the success in any palliative or hospice care scenario are its interdisciplinary team and the management of legal and ethical issues surrounding procedures and protocols.

Question 20

Describe the conditions under which someone may be eligible to enroll in palliative or hospice care.

Question 21

Identify three sets of knowledge clinical social workers bring to interdisciplinary teams.

Question 22

Social work in the field of palliative and hospice care requires proficiency in seven core areas. Identify and define any two, then describe how it applies to a patient.

Question 23

Describe what is meant by this statement: "Work within the fields of palliative and hospice care centers on skills of case management."