After completing this course you’ll be able to:
| 1. | Define prognosis. |
| 2. | Compare chronic and acute illness. |
| 3. | List five reasons to seek a second opinion. |
| 4. | Define attendings, resident physicians and interns. |
| 5. | Compare a psychotherapist and a psychiatrist. |
| 6. | List three reasons family meetings are often held. |
| 7. | Define metastatic cancer and why surgery is less of an option. |
| 8. | Describe heart failure. |
| 9. | Describe pulmonary disease. |
| 10. | Define dementia according to Weissman. |
| 11. | State the symptom that is feared most by the dying patient. |
| 12. | List four causes of nausea. |
| 13. | State a common solution to urinary problems. |
| 14. | State the most significant advantage of hospitalization for the terminally ill. |
| 15. | State why most patients wish to die at home. |
| 16. | State the first physical change families notice at the end of life. |
| 17. | List ways to resolve the “death rattle.” |
| 18. | State what families should do when a loved one dies at home while under hospice care. |
| 19. | List several emotions people normally experience when facing illness of a loved one. |
| 20. | List and describe four ways negative feelings can get out of hand and require help. |
| 21. | State why a persons mere presence can be helpful to patients. |
| 22. | List a few phrases that shut down conversations and words that open up a conversation. |
| 23. | List two ways to honor advance directives. |
| 24. | Define the role of an executor of a will. |
| 25. | List the differences between a funeral and a memorial. |
| 26. | List the five important tasks by Dr. Byock. |
| 27. | Describe the five categories of growth, according to Tedeschi and Calhoun (1996). |
| 28. | State why rituals are so powerful. |
| 29. | Describe a life review and its purpose. |
| 30. | List the five stages of dying according to Kubler-Ross. |