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Palliative Care and Pain Management Quiz

Test your knowledge on palliative care and pain management with our comprehensive quiz. This quiz covers essential topics ranging from opioid usage to advanced care planning and more.

Whether you're a healthcare professional or just interested in the subject, you'll find this quiz engaging and educational!

Multiple choice questions
Focus on pain management strategies
Insight into palliative care practices

13 Questions3 MinutesCreated by CaringHeart202

Patients treated with opioids should receive routine prophylaxis for which side effect?

Constipation

Sedation

Urinary retention

Myoclonus

A 54-year-old patient with end-stage renal failure dies of sudden cardiac arrest 6 days after withdrawal of dialysis. This patient’s death was most likely caused by which of the following complications of renal failure?

Hyperphosphatemia

Hypercalcemia

Anemia

Hyperkalemia

Which of the following statements is most appropriate with regard to advanced care planning in the terminally ill patient?

Advanced care planning discussions are outside the scope of practice for the palliative care nurse

Advanced care planning decisions should be made after a single conversation

The best time for advanced care planning discussions is late in the course of terminal illness

Advanced care planning should address issues beyond code status

Which of the following is most accurate about heat therapy for the treatment of pain?

Heat therapy is highly effective for treatment of pain associated with muscle spasm

Heat therapy is most effective for the treatment of neuropathic pain

Application of heat results in decreased blood flow to the treatment area

Heat therapy is most effective over areas with decreased sensation

Among the following, the sign most likely to indicate that the hospice nurse is not maintaining appropriate professional boundaries with a patient/family is?

Keeping in touch with a patient’s family after the patient has died

Crying at the bedside when the patient dies

Encouraging the patient’s loved ones to say goodbye as death approaches

Believing that he/she is the only nurse that can take good care of the patient

The medical team caring for a terminally ill cancer patient is hesitant about broaching the topic of palliative care team consultation with the patient. Initial discussion of palliative care team consultation should include emphasis on all of the following except:

The fact that there is nothing more the medical team can do for the patient

Information the palliative care team can provide that helps ensure that the patient is fully informed about his/her choices

Expertise of the palliative care team in managing the disease-related symptoms the patient is experiencing

The expertise of the palliative care team in helping the patient maximize the his/her quality of life

With chronic use, in relation to oral morphine, injectable morphine is?

Equally potent

10 times as potent

15 times as potent

2 times as potent.

Methadone should be used for relieving cancer pain when the patient has not obtained relief from which of the following?

Codeine or hydrocodone

High-dosage IV/SC morphine

Multidrug spinal infusions

Rhizotomy or cingulotomy

Which of the following classes of drugs can be effective adjuvants to morphine when treating specific types of pain?

Antihypertensives

Anticonvulsants

Cholinergics

Antacids

Q301-313

Palliative Care and Pain Management Quiz

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