Palliative care nursing: principles and evidence for practice
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Maidenhead Open University Press c2008
Edition:2nd ed
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Item Description: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
Reflects the global developments in palliative care. This book reviews research and examines the evidence base for palliative care policy and practice. It focuses on palliative care for adults in a variety of care environments. It addresses issues in nursing and inter-professional working
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 717 p.)
ISBN:0335236464
9780335236466

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