Palliative Care Nursing: Quality Care to the End of Life - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826157912 ISBN 13: 9780826157911

Publisher: (Null), 2009

Synopsis

Palliative care is a philosophy of care that provides a combination of disease-modifying and supportive, compassionate therapies intended to alleviate pain and other symptoms - while addressing the emotional, social, cultural, and spiritual needs of patients and families who are experiencing life-threatening progressive illness. This third edition of "Palliative Care Nursing" provides newly updated content, knowledge, attitudes, skills, and cutting-edge teaching and learning strategies to achieve the AACN End-of-Life nursing competencies. The text is organized to emphasize the importance of a holistic perspective and an understanding of the patient and family as individuals with diverse spiritual and cultural needs and expectations. With this book, readers will learn to understand and attend to the more abstract needs of patients and their families, with an emphasis on the value of complementary holistic modalities in promoting health, wholeness, and wellness even as death approaches.

About this title

From the Back Cover

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"""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)

""In this comprehensive textbook on palliative care nursing, editors Marianne Matzo and Deborah Witt Sherman succeed in bringing together the heart of nursing and the true meaning of palliative care with the most current evidence based practice.""

--GeriPal

Palliative care is a philosophy of caregiving that integrates disease modification with supportive, compassionate therapies for patients at the end of life. Palliative care nurses are responsible for alleviating pain and other physical symptoms-along with satisfying the emotional, social, cultural, and spiritual needs of patients who are facing life-threatening illness.

This third edition of "Palliative Care Nursing" provides more comprehensive newly updated content, knowledge, attitudes, skills, and cutting-edge teaching and learning strategies to achieve the AACN End-of-Life nursing competencies providing a lifespan approach. Now in its third edition, this book continues to emphasize the value of complementary, holistic modalities in promoting health, wholeness, and wellness, even as death approaches.

Key topics discussed:

• Ethical aspects of palliative care
• Legal aspects of end-of-life decision-making
• Loss, suffering, grief, and bereavement on the part of patients and their families
• Symptom-specific nursing management of pain, anxiety, depression, fatigue, malnutrition, and dehydration-all common to palliative care
• How to communicate with the seriously ill and dying patients, their families, and their health care providers
• Disease-specific aspects of palliative care for those battling cancer, heart disease, lung disease, HIV/AIDS, end-stage renal and liver disease, neurological, and other disorders

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About this edition

• Publisher: (Null)
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0826157912
• ISBN 13: 9780826157911
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 664
• Editor: Matzo Marianne, Sherman Deborah