Author Question: The hospice nurse provides palliative care for clients. Which of the following are clinical practice ... (Read 78 times)

anshika · **on:** Jul 16, 2018

The hospice nurse provides palliative care for clients. Which of the following are clinical practice guidelines for this type of care? Select all that apply.

A) Assessing pain
B) Researching new treatment modalities
C) Performing life-saving resuscitation measures
D) Treating pain
E) Providing symptom relief
F) Coordinating care

Question 2

A nurse is caring for a client who has been recommended the guided imagery technique
for pain management. The client is eager to know how this technique will help him. In
which way does the guided imagery technique help in pain management?

A) Relieves pain by relaxing taut muscles
B) Provides distraction and diversion from the pain
C) Enables visualization of destruction of the origin of pain
D) Causes vasodilation at the area of pain

jessofishing · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 16, 2018

Answer to Question 1

A, D, E, F
Feedback:
The term palliative care encompasses nursing care and medical treatments that relieve or reduce physical and psychological symptoms, to make the client more comfortable. It does not aim to cure a disease. Principles of palliative care aid the terminally ill person toward the end of his or her life.

Answer to Question 2

C