What is Palliative Care

Who Should Receive Palliative Care

What Are The Goals of Palliative Care

How Common is Pancreatic Cancer
What Age Does It Occur In Most
Where do the Majority of Tumors Occur

What is a Complication of Pancreatic Cancer Located in the Head & How Can You Tell
If the Cancer Starts in the Body or Tail When is it Diagnosed

What is the Prognosis of Pancreatic Cancer
What are General Clinical Manifestations

What are the S/S of Cancer in Pancrease Head
What Does it Mean if The Pain is Extreme and Unrelenting

Where is Pancreatic Cancer Pain Frequently Located, what is it Commonly Related To, Might it Also Occur

What is Weight Loss with Pancreatic Cancer Due To
What are Common Diagnostics Used

Run Down of What EUS Allow For
When is CT Used Mostly & WHy
What Does the ERCP Allow For
How does a PET Scan Help

What is the Tumor Marker for Diagnosing and Monitoring Pancreatic Cancer

How is Pancreated CA Treated

What is Done When Tumor Compresses Bile Duct
What Else Can Be Done for Pain Relief

What Measures Should the Nurse Take in Regards to Pt Nutrition
What Does the Nurse Need to Watch For

What Should the Nurse Watch for If Undergoing Radiation Therapy
What is a Significant Component of Nursing Care

What is ALS Characterized By
What Ages are Mostly Affected
What Sex is Mostly Affected
What is the Cause & Cure
What is the Prognosis for ALS

What is the Effect on the Body vs Brain
What Neurons are Affect and to what Extent

Common Signs&Symptoms of ALS
What are Other Symptoms that May Present

What Medication is Used in ALS

What Are Nursing Interventions for ALS

What Should Nursing Support Be Geared Towards with ALS
What Needs to be Discussed with the Patient

Identify the Cognitive State and Concept of Death in:
Infancy & Toddlerhood
Early Childhood
Middle Childhood
Adolescence

How Do Infants & Toddlers Know the Severity of Their Disease
Where Do the Toddlers Emotional Response Derive From
What Are Typical Expressions

What Kind of Thinking do Preschoolers Have
What does This Thinking Cause
How do Preschoolers Typically View Their Illness

What is Needed from the Nurse With Preschoolers
What Provides a Feeling of Greater Security for these Children

When do School Age Children Realize Death is not Only Inevitable for Adults

What is a Near Death Awareness
What May Happen With Dying Children

What Might Help the Nurse Better Understand and Participate in Patient Care
What Should The Nurse Remind and Reassure the Dying Child
Parents & Nurses Should Make Sure

What Needs to Be Done With Family Members of Dying Child

As Death Approaches What May Happen with Communication and How Can The Nurse Assist

As a Nurse How Should You Respond When Patient Asks About Approaching Death & What Should be Done Before Hand

As a Nurse What do You Do if Patients Family wants to give Alternative Treatment and/or drugs Not Approved by FDA

How Would You as A Nurse Advise a Parent What a DNR is
What is Important to Communicate

What Should the Nurse Do if Conflict Arises Between Patient Practices and Their Beliefs

How Should The Nurse Address Parents Concern in Regards to Child Addicition to Pain Meds Risk

What is Hospice Care
How Can The Nures Assist In Hospice Care Selection

How Should a Nurse Fix a Childs Room
What is Important in the Childs Care
What Changes May Occur in Sick Children

What Changes may Occur in Fluid Intake
What Interventions Must the Nurse Take

How Should A Nurse Provide Fluid for The Patient or Interventions for Dry Mouth
When Would Fluid Intake be Restricted

How Can A Nurse Provide Oral Care to the Patient
How Can Oral Medications Be Administered
Can Family Be Involved in Care

If Responsiveness or Communication is Increased Right Before Death Is the Patient Getting Better?! What Does the Nurse Need to Teach The Family in These Regards

What is The Last Sense to Go & What Should Be Encouraged Because of This

What Does the Nurse Recognize as Indicators of Iminent Death

What are Cheyne Stokes
What is the Term Agonal and Should the Nurse Use It

What is the Death Rattle
How Should the Nurse Treat The Death Rattle

If Hypoxic Agitation Occurs from Respiratory Changes What Does Nurse Administer

What Can The Nurse Administer to Decrease Secretions When Death Rattle Occurs & What Other Interventions May Be Done

What Should The Nurse Have Informed the Family Prior to Holding the Deceased Child
How can the Nurse Facilitate Family Comfort