Chapter 15: The provision of effective palliative care for adults
1. Where do most people in the UK die?
- at home
- hospital
- nursing homes
- accident and emergency departments
2. Who is probably the first person to recognize deterioration in the hospital patients’ condition?
- the doctor
- the health care support worker
- the nurse
- the physiotherapist
3. When breaking ‘bad news’, what model is considered to be very useful?
- Integrated Care Pathway Model
- Egans’s SOLER model
- The Spikes Model
- Preferred Priorities of Care document
4. The good death concept constitutes which of the following attributes?
- do not actively resuscitate (DNAR) orders
- advanced care planning
- effective pain and symptoms control
- not being on your own
5. One of the most important aspects of communication at the end of life is ______.
- ensuring the patient knows their diagnosis
- having a therapeutic relationship with the patient
- carrying out last offices
- having emotional intelligence