End-of-Life Care Study Guide Questions
Course Introduction
End-of-Life Care explores the principles, practices, and ethical considerations involved in supporting individuals and families during the final stages of life. The course covers topics such as pain and symptom management, communication strategies, psychosocial and spiritual support, cultural sensitivities, advance care planning, and the roles of interdisciplinary healthcare teams. Students will develop an understanding of palliative care approaches, legal and policy frameworks, and strategies to address emotional needs, fostering compassionate and person-centered care for patients facing life-limiting illnesses.
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The Last Dance Encountering Death and Dying 10th Edition by Lynne Ann DeSpelder
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Chapter 1: Attitudes Toward Death: A Climate of Change
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Q1) What are the two leading causes of death in the United States
A)Suicide and Alzheimer's disease
B)Accidents and cancer
C)Alcoholism and stroke
D)Heart disease and cancer
Answer: D
Q2) Avoiding words like dead or dying, instead using phrases in which loved ones "pass away," the deceased is "laid to rest" and the corpse is "remains", is an example of A)death porn.
B)euphemisms.
C)thanatos.
D)keenings.
Answer: B
Q3) Substitutions of vague words or phrases for ones considered harsh are A)euphemisms.
B)death porn.
C)the indicative voice.
D)linguistic deliberations.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Learning About Death: Socialization
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Q1) The Copernican stage marks the beginning of a child's moral sense.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) In Erickson's model, approximately what age marks the beginning of the child's moral sense
A)Birth-2 years
B)Preschool and kindergarten years
C)Middle childhood or school age
D)Adolescent
Answer: B
Q3) In Erikson's model, the years from about six to the beginning of puberty correspond to what stage
A)Autonomy vs.shame
B)Initiative vs.guilt
C)Industry vs.inferiority
D)Identity vs.role confusion
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Perspectives on Death: Historical and Cultural
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Q1) Dia de los Muertos, the Mexican Day of the Dead, blends Catholic, Spanish, and Indian rituals.This celebration exemplifies an attitude toward death that
A)perceives death as the final chapter of a person's existence.
B)perceives death as an incomprehensible phenomenon.
C)views death in an open, humorous, ironic manner.
D)views death as the ultimate test.
Answer: C
Q2) In many traditional societies communication with the dead is facilitated by a A)medicine man.
B)soothsayer.
C)shaman.
D)necroman.
Answer: C
Q3) When did burials begin to take place in cemeteries not associated with churches
A)About the twelfth century
B)After the Civil War
C)About the time of the Renaissance
D)After the Great Plague
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Death Systems: Mortality and Society
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Q1) The Uniform Determination of Death Act was proposed by the A)American Bar Association.
B)President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine.
C)Harvard Medical School Ad Hoc Committee to Examine Brain Death.
D)American Medical Association.
Q2) The modes of death recognized by law include all of the following categories EXCEPT
A)accident.
B)homicide.
C)mature death.
D)suicide.
Q3) What are the different modes of death on a typical death certificate
A)Accidental, suspicious, homicidal, and natural
B)Intentional, suspicious, homicidal, and natural
C)Accidental, suicidal, homicidal, and natural
D)Suicidal, unintentional, homicidal, and natural
Q4) Homicide is separated into two categories, criminal and non-criminal.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Health Care: Patients, Staff, and Institutions
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Q1) When communicating a life-threatening diagnosis to a patient, a physician must consider the patient's 1)personality.
2)emotional constitution.
3)capacity for continued function under stress.
4)long-term health care insurance.
A)1, 2, and 3
B)1, 2, and 4
C)1, 3, and 4
D)2, 3, and 4
Q2) In what year was the first hospital-based helicopter program established at St.Anthony's Hospital in Denver
A)1972
B)1963
C)1947
D)1995
Q3) In conversations that involve news of a life-threatening diagnosis, details can be given in segments.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: End-Of-Life Issues and Decisions
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Q1) The Patient Self-Determination Act requires providers of services under Medicare and Medicaid to do which of the following
A)Inform patients of their rights to appoint a health care proxy and draw up written instructions regarding treatment.
B)Refuse admission to patients who fail to sign an advance directive.
C)Document the patient's Five Wishes.
D)Determine patient's length of stay.
Q2) What position did the state of Missouri initially take in the Nancy Beth Cruzan case
A)It contended that Nancy's parents did not have the right to remove artificial feeding.
B)It contended that the medical center did not have the right to remove Nancy's feeding tube.
C)It deferred to federal law requiring Nancy to be sustained by artificial feeding.
D)It deferred to medical professionals to determine Nancy's fate.
Q3) Statistics show that most people die without leaving a will.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Facing Death: Living With Life-Threatening Illness
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Q1) The therapies included under complementary and alternative medicine are sometime referred to as
A)integrative medicine.
B)twenty-first century medicine.
C)voodoo.
D)non-standard practice medicine.
Q2) What did Eric Cassell write about the social role of the dying patient
A)The death of the body is a physical phenomenon whereas the passing of the person is nonphysical.
B)Illness is accompanied by a social role and responsibility.
C)The social role of the dying patient is the same as the social role of other patients.
D)The social role of the dying patient includes maintaining the illusion of health.
Q3) Pain can be directly measured and observed.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Chemotherapy involves the use of toxic drugs.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Last Rites: Funerals and Body Disposition
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Q1) An intake fee is the charge for transporting the corpse from the place of death to the mortuary.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Burying "grave goods" with the dead promotes the expression of grief.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Wal-Mart cells caskets and urns on its website.
A)True
B)False
Q4) David Sudnow's study on death notification revealed that A)the immediate family is often last to be notified.
B)doctors are unskilled in notifying families about the death of a loved one.
C)notification occurs randomly depending on the circumstances of the cause of death.
D)notification occurs in a consistent pattern from the immediate family to the wider community.
Q5) Cremated remains must be placed in an urn if kept by the family.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Survivors: Understanding the Experience of Loss
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Q1) Which of the following bereavement organizations focuses on supporting military families
A)The Compassionate Friends
B)Bereaved Families of Ontario
C)Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors
D)Men in Blue Foundation
Q2) The inclusion of bereavement as a diagnosis in the DSM-5 was a welcome change amongst most thanatologists, because of the clarification of terms, the medicalizing of grief and accessibility to antidepressant medications.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The grief-work model has been widely accepted as the standard formulation for
A)acknowledging the necessity for a universal way of coping.
B)understanding and helping people accommodate to loss.
C)maintaining household shrines for ancestors.
D)recognizing, reacting, and readjusting to loss.
Q4) Individuals may experience a resurfacing of grief stimulated by a public death.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Death in the Lives of Children and Adolescents
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Q1) In helping children cope with loss, adults must strive to A)assure the child that they will see their loved one again and until then, they are always in their heart.
B)answer questions honestly and directly.
C)calm the child by using familiar fairy tales and metaphors.
D)remind the child the good news that their loved one is waiting for them with God in heaven.
Q2) A coping strategy in which ill children limit the number of people with whom they have a close relationship is
A)limiting.
B)distancing.
C)side-stepping.
D)reversion.
Q3) When parents explain death to children, they should
A)use nursery rhymes and fairy tales to "soften" the trauma of death.
B)be honest.
C)avoid using the harsh words death or dead.
D)do it as close to the time of a death as possible, no need to discuss death beforehand.
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Chapter 11: Death in the Lives of Adults
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Q1) In contrast to their stereotypical image, old people tend to be more
A)monotonous than other age groups.
B)individually distinct than other age groups.
C)carefree than other age groups.
D)active when living in a senior community.
True / False Questions
Q2) The distinction between miscarriage and stillbirth is based on the logic that most fetuses are viable after the 20<sup>th</sup> week of pregnancy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The major cause of death among individuals between 5 and 24 years old is A)accidents.
B)childhood leukemia.
C)suicide.
D)natural causes.
Q4) What is one of the most valuable resources for the recently widowed
A)Quiet time alone to reflect
B)Contact with peers
C)Volunteer opportunities with children
D)Grief therapy
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Chapter 12: Suicide
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Q1) In the United States, the earliest noteworthy example of a suicide prevention center was in
A)Boston.
B)St.Louis.
C)Los Angeles.
D)Cambridge.
Q2) Considering the role of aggression in the psychodynamic model of suicide, suicide may be viewed as murder
A)without the consequences.
B)without aggression.
C)in the 360<sup>th</sup> degree.
D)in the 180<sup>th</sup> degree.
Q3) Suicidal behavior may be immediate or long term.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The recent suicide of a friend and giving away prized possessions should be taken as a warning sign of a person at risk for suicide.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Risks, Perils, and Traumatic Death
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Q1) What is the most AIDS affected region in the world
A)Sub-Saharan Africa
B)Australia
C)Western Europe
D)South America
Q2) In combat situations, most soldiers are motivated to fight because of their A)will to survive.
B)sense of camaraderie.
C)sense of patriotism.
D)desire to be heroic.
Q3) Meditation and sweat-lodge rituals have helped some veterans come to terms with their experiences.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The scale of the Great Sichuan Earthquake prompted the Chinese government to A)dispose of the bodies with little ceremony.
B)create forensic identification policies.
C)better utilize the Internet to locate loved ones.
D)institute local debriefings.
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Chapter 14: Beyond Deathafter Life
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Q1) Islamic teachings about death include the idea that
A)God determines a person's lifespan.
B)God has no power over an individual's fate.
C)hell does not exist.
D)hellish states are only temporary.
Q2) In, The Apology, Socrates describes death as
A)eternal bliss.
B)dreamless sleep.
C)either eternal bliss or dreamless sleep.
D)neither eternal bliss nor dreamless state.
Q3) Jewish mourning rituals help the bereaved to engage in a reaffirmation of life.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The majority of adult Americans answer yes when asked whether they believe in life after death.
A)True
B)False
Q5) One function of religion in society is as a source of emotional support.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: The Path Ahead: Personal and Social Choices
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Q1) Which of the following are defining characteristics of a "compassionate city "
1)A strong commitment to social and cultural differences
2)Offers inhabitants a close circle of secure support without interference from outsiders
3)Meets special needs of the aged, those living with life threatening illness, and those living with loss
4)Preserves and promotes spiritual traditions and storytellers
A)1, 2, and 3
B)1, 2, and 4
C)1, 3, and 4
D)2, 3, and 4
Q2) The shoe advertisement shown in the text illustrates
A)how death is a universal concept.
B)how death is socially acceptable.
C)death imagery in advertising design.
D)how distasteful and unregulated some advertising can be.
Q3) Edwin Shneidman was a respected thanatologist and suicidologist.
A)True
B)False
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