Chapter 32 Assisting With End Of Life Care Flashcards
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Advanced directive
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A document stating a person’s wishes about health care when that person cannot make his or her own decisions
2
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Autopsy
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The examination of the body after death
3
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End of life care
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Care that involves relieving or reducing the intensity of uncomfortable symptoms without producing a cure
4
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Postmortem care
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Care of the body after death
5
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Reincarnation
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The belief that the spirit or soul is reborn in another human body or in another form of life
6
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Rigor mortis
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The stiffness or rigidity of skeletal muscles that occurs after death
7
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Terminal illness
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And illness or injury from which the person will not likely recover
