Nurse to Nurse Palliative Care - Softcover

Campbell, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071493239 ISBN 13: 9780071493239

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education / Medical, 2008

Synopsis

Palliative care as only a nurse can teach it

Includes full-text PDA download!

In this highly useful book, Campbell shared with you everything you must know about providing the best possible care to end-of-life patients and their families.

Vignettes, clinical pearls, and nursing alerts help you to understand:

• The nurse's role in providing care to dying patients
• Special approaches to talking with patients and their families
• Patient and family needs
• Withdrawal of life-sustaining devices
• Nurse's grief

About this title

Synopsis:

A unique 'mentor in a pocket' handbook covering the most emotionally-trying experience nurses face. From a world recognized expert on care for the dying, comes the first pocket-sized reference for generalist nurses on palliative care. This handy, portable reference assists nursing in dealing with one of the most emotionally trying situations they face in clinical practice. Part of McGraw-Hill's "Nurse to Nurse" series, this title includes PDA download of the entire text, vignettes, nursing alerts that provide just-in-time information on complex or particularly important aspects of patient care, and clinical pearls which provide the benefit of other nurses' valuable experience in dealing with end-of-life care.Coated flex-binding repels stains. The new "Nurse to Nurse" series is specifically designed to simulate the teaching experience nurses learn best from: trusted mentors carefully explaining what they must do in specific clinical situations. Written in a consistent, single-author voice, this series brings the wisdom and experience of some of the foremost experts to non-specialist nurses in clinical care.

About the Author:

Margaret L. Campbell, PhD, RN, FAAN
Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner
Detroit Receiving Hospital
Assistant Professor--Research
Center for Health Research
College of Nursing
Wayne State University
Associate Director--Research
Center to Advance Palliative Care Excellence
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education / Medical
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0071493239
• ISBN 13: 9780071493239
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304