Practice Question
After attending a class on hospice care, a student nurse knows that hospice care includes which of the following statements? Select all that apply.
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Correct Answer:
It is a method of providing quality end-of-life care in a variety of locations
Rationale:
🌟 It is a method of providing quality end-of-life care in a variety of locations. — Correct
🌟 Hospice care is a philosophy, not a physical place, and it can be delivered in many settings, including home, long-term care, hospitals, and hospice centers.
🌟 The goal is to ensure comfort, dignity, and support for patients nearing the end of life, regardless of their location.
🌟 This flexibility allows patients to receive care where they feel safest, most supported, and most emotionally secure.
🌟 Hospice programs emphasize quality of life, giving clients and families access to care in the setting that best suits their needs.
🌟 To qualify for services, patients usually have a prognosis of 6 months or less to live. — Correct
🌟 Hospice eligibility commonly requires a provider to certify a life expectancy of about 6 months if the disease follows its normal progression.
🌟 This criterion ensures that hospice services support patients when curative options are no longer effective or desired.
🌟 Patients may continue to receive hospice beyond six months if they still meet terminal status criteria.
🌟 This timeframe helps align care goals toward comfort, dignity, and symptom management rather than aggressive treatment.
🌟 Programs mainly provide palliative care and comfort measures for the dying person. — Correct
🌟 Hospice focuses on palliative care, which prioritizes relief of symptoms, pain control, and emotional and spiritual support.
🌟 The purpose is to enhance comfort, peacefulness, and quality of life rather than curing disease.
🌟 Care is delivered through an interdisciplinary approach, including nurses, physicians, social workers, and chaplains.
🌟 By providing symptom control, counseling, and comfort interventions, hospice ensures a dignified end-of-life experience.
❌ Services for the family only when the death of a patient occurs. — Incorrect
❌ Hospice care provides support for families throughout the entire hospice journey, not only at the moment of death.
❌ Families receive emotional support, education, respite, and counseling while the patient is still alive.
❌ After the patient’s death, hospice also offers bereavement services for 12 months or more, helping families cope with loss.
❌ Limiting support to only the time of death contradicts the hospice model, which emphasizes ongoing, holistic family care.
❌ Curative therapies are always included in the plan of care for a hospice patient. — Incorrect
❌ Hospice care is based on the understanding that curative treatment is no longer beneficial or desired.
❌ The plan of care shifts entirely toward comfort-focused, non-curative interventions.
❌ Aggressive medical treatments aimed at reversing the disease are typically discontinued.
❌ Saying curative therapies are "always included" contradicts the essence of hospice, which emphasizes palliation, not cure.
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