Palliative care nursing principles and evidence for practice (Open University Press, 2008)
Previous ed.: 2004
Includes bibliographical references and index
History and culture in the rise of palliative care / David Clark -- Involving or using? User involvement in palliative care / Tony Stevens -- Referral patterns and access to specialist palliative care / Julia Addington-Hall -- Dying: places and preferences / Carol Thomas -- An uncertain journey: Coping with transitions, survival and recurrence / Margaret O'Connor -- Communication: Patient and family / Sue Duke and Christopher Bailey -- Clinical assessment and measurement / Michael Bennett and Jose Closs -- Adapting complementary therapies for palliative care / Ann Carter and Peter Mackereth -- Good for the soul? The spiritual dimension of hospice and palliative care / Michael Wright -- Working with difficult symptoms / Jessica Corner -- Pain: Theories, evaluation and management / Silvia Paz and Jane Seymour -- Balancing feelings and cognitions / Mari Lloyd-Williams and John Hughes -- Psychiatric aspects of palliative care / William Lee and Matthew Hotopf --
- Working with family care-givers in a palliative care setting / Paula Smith and Julie Skilbeck -- Personhood and identity in palliative care / Jenny Hockey -- No way in: Including disadvantaged population and patient groups at the end of life / Jonathan Koffman and Margaret Camps -- Palliative care in institutions / Jeanne Samson Katz -- Treatment decisions at the end of life: a conceptual framework / Bert Broeckaert -- Nursing care at the time of death / Carol Komaromy -- The care and support of bereaved people / Mark Cobb -- Risk assessment and adult bereavement services / Marilyn Relf -- Bereavement support services / David Kissane -- Helping children and families facing bereavement in palliative care settings / Liz Rolls -- Professional boundaries in palliative care / Karen Cox and Veronica James -- The cost of caring: surviving the culture of niceness, occupational stress and coping strategies / Sanchia Aranda --
- Education and scholarship in palliative care: a European nursing perspective / Philip Larkin -- Information and communications technology (ICT) in palliative care / Peter Bath, Barbara Sen and Kendra Albright -- Research in palliative care / Gunn Grande and Christine Ingleton -- Practice development in palliative care / Katherine Froggatt and Mary Turner -- Policy and palliative care / Jo Hockley -- Palliative care in resource-poor countries / Jennifer Hunt