Palliative care : explorations and challenges

著者

• Parker, Judith M.
• Aranda, Sanchia

書誌事項

Palliative care : explorations and challenges

edited by Judith M. Parker and Sanchia K. Aranda

MacLennan & Petty, 1998

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The book gives particular emphasis to the specific relevant of the major issues of palliative care for nurses working in various practice settings, and also those teaching or undertaking research in palliative care. Chapters are accompanied by a commentary which links the topics discussed to contemporary nursing issues.

目次

• Introduction
• Hospice
• Principles and implications
• Cultural diversity
• Medical speciality
• Within the health care system
• Competing discourses within palliative care
• Spirituality
• Psychosocial dimensions
• The 'good death'
• Nursing the dying
• The inevitability of death: Some reflections
• Euthanasia: Clinical, ethical & legal aspects
• Is euthanasia an option?
• Breaking the silence: Dementia
• From the critical turning point to new direction
• Referrals
• Furthering the development
• The nurse consultant in acute setting
• Children with life threatening illnesses
• Critical care and technology
• Bone marrow transplant
• Dying of AIDS
• Motor neurone disease
• In the twilight of Alzheimer's disease
• The elderly in residential settings
• Index.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA44094016
• ISBN:
  • 0864331207
• 出版国コード: at
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Sydney ; London
• ページ数/冊数: xxxiv, 307 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • DC21 : 362.175
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Palliative treatment