Palliative care nursing : quality care to the end of life

Palliative care nursing : quality care to the end of life / editors, Marianne Matzo, Deborah Witt Sherman.

"This textbook has ... introduced concepts and methods of education which [help] to move palliative nursing forward as an evidenced based practice of whole person care."--Betty Ferrell, PhD, FAAN. Research Scientist (From the Foreword). Palliative care is a philosophy of caregiving that in...

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Other Authors: Matzo, Marianne, Sherman, Deborah Witt
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer Pub. Co., ©2010.
Edition:3rd ed.
Subjects:
Terminal care.
Palliative treatment.
Hospice nurses.
Hospice care.
MEDICAL > Terminal Care.
Hospice care
Hospice nurses
Palliative treatment
Terminal care
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Culture and spirituality as domains of quality palliative care / Deborah Witt Sherman
  • Holistic integrative therapies in palliative care / Carla Mariano
  • Sexual health and intimacy / Marianne Matzo
  • Societal perspectives regarding palliative care / Marilyn Bookbinder & Marlene McHugh
  • The nurse's role in interdisciplinary and palliative care / Lisa M. Krammer [and others]
  • Development of the specialty of hospice and palliative care nursing / Judy Lentz & Deborah Witt Sherman
  • Ethical aspects of palliative care / Judith Kennedy Schwartz & Anita J. Tarzian
  • Legal aspects of decision making in palliative care / Kathleen Ouimet Perrin
  • Communicating with seriously ill and dying patients, their families, and their health care providers / Kathleen Ouimet Perrin
  • Family caregivers / Kay Blum
  • Loss, suffering, grief, and bereavement / Mertie L. Potter.
  • Cancer / Amy E. Guthrie & Polly Mazanec
  • End-stage heart disease / Judith B. Dyne
  • Chronic lung disease / Mary Brennan
  • Neurological disorders / Christine R. Kovach & Sheila Reynolds
  • End-stage renal disease / Lynn Roland
  • End-stage liver disease / Robert B. Davis
  • Palliative care for patients with HIV/AIDS / Deborah Witt Sherman
  • Pain assessment and pharmacological/nonpharmacological interventions / Nessa Coyle & Mary Layman-Goldstein
  • Dyspnea / Cindy R. Balkstra
  • Anxiety, depression, and delirium / Constance M. Dahlin
  • Gastrointestinal symptoms / Pamala D. Larsen & Laura Mallett
  • Fatigue and weakness evaluation and management / Marianne Matzo, Patsy R. Smith & Deborah Witt Sherman
  • Skin care needs of palliative patients / Elizabeth A. Ayello, R. Gary Sibbald & Kevin Y. Woo
  • Peri-death nursing care / Marianne Matzo & Jane A. Hill.

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