Palliative Care Nursing

at a Glance

Christine Ingleton, Philip Larkin

Multiple Choice: Chapter 55 Changing goals of care at end-of-life

Question 1. When explaining the dying process to families, it is advisable that the multi-disciplinary team:

A Use euphemisms about death and dying in order to ease their loss and pain
B Insist that they will take over all of the patient care and decisions in order to allow the family time to rest at this precious time
C Emphasise that everything will be done to maintain the patient's life for as long as possible
D Discuss death and dying as appropriate with their beliefs, values, culture and wishes