Interpreting at the End of Life #1

2. an individual specially trained to offer support, prayer, and spiritual guidance to patients and their families
4. the skills needed to emotionally handle difficult situations in life
8. a healthcare facility that provides nursing care to patients over an extended period of time
9. Physicians Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment
10. a residential facility that provides professional nursing care around the clock
14. examples of this: feeding tube, mechanical ventilation, dialysis
15. This tells your doctor what kind of care you want if you should become unable to make medical decisions for yourself.
16. an expression of the actions, experiences, or feelings that make life worth living, for an individual patient
18. a person who may make health-related decisions on behalf of a patient who is not able to make decisions for himself
19. counseling to help deal with on-going sadness regarding a loved one who has died or who is dying
20. a legal document in which an individual designates another person to make health care decisions if he cannot participate in medical decision-making, for any reason

1. care that focuses on improving a patient’s quality of life and managing a patient’s symptoms rather than on curing the cause of those symptoms
3. a special way of caring for people during the last six months of life by meeting the patient's physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs, as well as the needs of the family
5. the desired outcome from a specific treatment plan
6. a legal term referring to the person or persons most closely related by blood to an individual
7. the likelihood of recovery from a disease or trauma
11. a patient’s closest relatives
12. a trained and certified healthcare worker who assists with personal hygiene and light housework for a homebound patient
13. a program that sends temporary caretakers to a patient’s home in order to give the principle caregiver a break
17. do-not-resuscitate order