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Ch. 16 Vocab words

Vocabulary Words

QuestionAnswer
Acceptance Admission of reality, as in the reality of death
Advance Directive "Living Will" Spells out patients wishes for health care at that time when they may be unable to indicate their choice.
Anticipatory Grieving Grieving before the actual loss happens
Acceptance Admission of reality, as in the reality of death
Autopsy Examination of the body,organs,and tissues to determine the cause of death.
Advance Directive "Living Will" Spells out patients wishes for health care at that time when they may be unable to indicate their choice.
Bargaining An attempt to make an arrangement whereby one gives something in order to gain something in return.
Anticipatory Grieving Grieving before the actual loss happens
Bereavenment The state of having suffered a loss by death.
Assisted Suicide Making available to patients the means to end thier lives with knowledge that suicide is their intent.
Brain death The permanent stopping of intergrated functioning of the person as a whole as evidence by the absence of EEG waves.
Autopsy Examination of the body,organs,and tissues to determine the cause of death.
Bargaining An attempt to make an arrangement whereby one gives something in order to gain something in return.
Bereavenment The state of having suffered a loss by death.
Brain death The permanent stopping of intergrated functioning of the person as a whole as evidence by the absence of EEG waves.
Cheyne-Stokes Respirations Respirations that gradually become shallower and are followed by periods of apnea.
Closure To say goodbye to those people and things that are important.
Comfort Care Focused on identifying symptoms that cause the patient distress and adequately treating those symptoms.
Coroner Person with the legal authority to determine cause of death.
Death The cessation of all physical and chemical processess.
Denial Defense mechanism in which the existence of intolerable conditions is unconsciously rejected.
Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care A legal document that appoints a person chosen by the patient to carry out his wishes as expected in the advance directive.
Dysfunctional Not normal or natural functioning.
Euthanasia The act of ending another persons life to end suffering
Passive Euthanasia occurs when a patient choses to die by refusing treatment that may prolong life (feeding tubes and IV'S)
Active Euthanasia Administering a drug or treatment to end the patients life.
Grief Total emotions feeling of pain and distress that a person experiences as a reaction to loss.
Grieving Process A process that occurs over a period of time as a person adapts to and moves through the pain of loss.
Health Care Proxy Person chosen by the patient to carry out the patients wishes as expressed in an advanced directive.
Hope A feeling that what is desired is possible. (an inner positive life force)
Hospice A philosophy of care for the dying and their families.
Loss To no longer have and object,person,or situation.
Obituary A notice of death in the newspaper.
Palliation The relief of symptoms when cure is no long possible, and treatment is provided solely for comfort.
Postmortem After death
Rigor Mortis Rigidity of muscles that occures after death.
Shroud Sheet used to wrap body of death.
Thanatology Study of death
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