Palliative nursing : bringing comfort and hope

書誌事項

Palliative nursing : bringing comfort and hope

edited by Shaun Kinghorn, Sandra Gaines

Baillière Tindall, c2007

2nd ed

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注記

Prev. ed: Palliative nursing: bringing comfort and hope / edited by Shaun Kinghorn, Richard Gamlin. 2001

Includes bibliographical references and index

収録内容

  • Strategic and global issues in palliative care / Elizabeth Travers, David Mitchell
  • Managing symptoms: what can nurses do? : a principle-based approach / Alison Connor, Michelle Muir
  • Pain control / Keith Farrer
  • Promoting comfort through radiotherapy, chemotherapy and surgery / Phillipa Green, James Youll
  • Making sense of spiritual care / David Mitchell, Tom Gordon
  • Psychosocial dimensions / Robert Becker
  • Communication in advanced illness: challenges and opportunities / Shaun Kinghorn, Sandra Gaines, Gill Satterley
  • Facilitating hope in palliative care / Rosemary McIntyre, Jackie Chaplin
  • Supporting the family facing loss and grief / Janet Brown, Graham Farley
  • Evidence-based palliative care / Shaun Kinghorn, Kevin Donaghy, Jackie Howard
  • Choice at the end of life: ethics and palliative care / Simon Chippendale
  • Liverpool care pathway / Anita Roberts, Deborah Murphy
  • Sexuality in palliative care / Val Forster
  • Complementary therapies / April Joslin ... [et al.]
  • Maureen Clark, Helen Richardson, Karen Merkin-Eyre
  • The changing face of nursing in palliative care / Audrey Rowe
  • Looking after yourself / Fiona Setch

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内容説明

This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. Content has been thoroughly revised and updated in line with changes in practice and policy both locally and internationally, particularly the UK NICE guidance on Supportive and palliative care for people with cancer and the Care of the Dying Pathway. It reflects the rapid development of palliative nursing as an emerging specialty. It helps in the process of defining palliative nursing and how it interfaces with other disciplines within the specialty. The text is divided into three sections and comprehensively, yet sensitively, covers all aspects of palliative nursing. Key themes covered include pain control, symptom control, loss and grief, and handling loss. . A strong emphasis is placed on the integration of theory and practice and evidence based care. . Reconciliation of the theory and practice is achieved by the use of case studies. . It addresses malignant and non-malignant palliative care. . Research and extensive literature support each chapter. Content has been thoroughly revised and updated in line with changes in practice and policy both locally and internationally, particularly the UK NICE guidance on Supportive and palliative care for people with cancer and the Care of the Dying Pathway . Three new chapters on: . Sexuality . Care of the Dying Pathway . Changing roles of the nurse in palliative care . New appendix on North American drug names equivalents for the international market

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