This sensitively written book offers a wealth of insight and practical advice for nurses in every specialty and setting providing end-of-life care. Nurses will learn how to address patients' spiritual concerns, ensure that physical needs are met, help patients maintain their dignity, and provide emotional support to grieving families. Nurses will ...
Bestselling author and trusted "New York Times" health columnist Brody offers a comprehensive and practical roadmap to end-of-life issues, from savvy financial planning to a wide array of important medical issues to the often-overlooked emotional considerations.
Originally published in 2001, the Textbook of Palliative Nursing has become the standard text for the field of hospice and palliative care nursing. In this new edition, the authors and editors have updated each chapter to ensure that the content is evidence-based and current references are included. They also have retained the important focus ...
Thoroughly revised and updated for its Second Edition, this volume is a practical guide to the management of the myriad symptoms and quality-of-life issues that occur in patients with cancer - including newly diagnosed patients, patients undergoing treatment, cancer survivors, and patients whose disease is no longer curable. The interdisciplinary ...
The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine has firmly established itself as the definitive book on the subject and is used in more than 8,000 palliative care services in over 100 countries. This new edition has been completely rewritten and revised to reflect the rapid growth of the specialty. Two world-famous doctors, Sir Kenneth Calman and ...
Cancer imposes severe physical, psychological, social and spiritual burdens on patients and their families. In this text, the author argues that this suffering should be prevented or treated at diagnosis, during curative therapy, in the event that cancer recurs, or during the final months. To help primary care physicians, internists and ...
The Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care covers all aspects of palliative care in a concise and succinct format suited to busy professionals who need to access key information in their daily care of patients. This practical guide covers briefly the historical and epidemiological background of palliative care, and the growth of palliative medicine ...
This user-friendly guide offers you practical, direct answers for the difficult and little-taught questions that arise when providing care for the dying. This title features: perspectives of patients, families, and other health care professionals, as well as physicians; and, solution-oriented coverage on preparing patients, managing symptoms, and ...
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 ...
Eight years has passed since the first edition of The Handbook of Psychiatry in Palliative Medicine was published. In that time, psychiatric (or psychosocial) palliative care has evolved; the net effect on palliative medicine has been transformative. Palliation that neglects psychosocial dimensions of patient and family experience, de facto, fails ...
In most patients, pain medication, along with physical therapy and supportive counselling, adequately controls the pain of terminal disease, but in some cases pain medication fails or produces unacceptable side effects, and other more invasive interventions may be used. This practical book provides comprehensive and easy-to-follow guidelines on ...
Conventional medical practice leaves some pain unrevealed. This pain can become chronic and its management has become a new specialty in medicine. This book provides an account of how to deal with the major chronic pain syndromes, including back pain, body and myofacial pain, malignant diseases, neurogenic pain and headaches. It covers the ...
Designed for easy use at the bedside, this manual contains the practical information health care professionals need to provide optimal end-of-life care. The book presents a multidimensional, holistic approach to assessment and management of the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of the patient and family. Topics covered include ...
The Second Edition of this contemporary text covers all aspects of care for the dying client. Content includes: identifying patient problems; independent and interdependent nursing interventions; and terminal as well as severely disabling chronic illnesses such as COPD, AIDS, neuromuscular problems, and Alzheimer's Disease. New in this edition: ...
"These authors and the pages of this text...create the blueprint that will build the kind of care system we all wish for our loved ones." - From the Foreword by Betty Rolling Ferrell, RN, PhD, FAAN. The second edition of this award-winning text provides the essential guide to achieving best practices in palliative care nursing. It offers a blend ...
Health care professionals seeking to improve the quality of life for those living with serious illness and nearing the end of life will find exactly what their organization needs in the second edition of this acclaimed book by Dr. Joanne Lynn and her colleagues. Improving Care for the End of Life provides expert guidance on how to make significant ...
Drawing from his extensive clinical experience and many years of teaching, Dr. Hallenbeck has written a guide to palliative care for clinicians. Topics addressed range from an overview of death and dying to specific approaches to symptom management. As an introduction to both the art and science of palliative care, this book reflects the ...
Before the 1970s, little research had been done to guide the clinician careing for dying patients. But the emergence of the hospice movement in the early 1980s made the public aware of the medical community's deficiencies in dealing with pain and symptom control in dying patients. Partly as a result of that increased awareness, important strides ...
Palliative care affirms the value of holistic support for persons facing death from advanced disease. Increasingly the approach of palliative care is seen as relevant not only to terminal cancer (its initial concern) but also to many other incurable conditions. To date, the major emphasis of specialist neurology has been on diagnosis, and the ...
The care of patients with advanced and terminal illness can be extremely rewarding but often causes junior and indeed senior clinicians a considerable amount of discomfort. Patients with advanced disease present some of the most challenging ethical, physical, psychological, spiritual and social issues to clinicians and indeed to society. In line ...
This is the fourth volume in a new international, multi-contributed series aimed at providing practical, clinical guidance on how to deal with difficult symptoms related to specific cancer sites. In this volume the Editors bring together first-rate palliative care with oncological treatment for patients with advanced breast cancer. The book is ...
The goal of palliative care - care other than medical care that addresses the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of the seriously ill patient, as well as the needs of their caregivers and loved ones - is to help people with cancer and their families experience the best quality of life possible throughout the course of the disease ...
This book provides a practical, evidence-based overview of the supportive care of patients with urological failure, covering issues such as quality of life measurements, the role of the multidisciplinary team, and psychological and social support for patients, families and carers. The book focuses on chronic symptoms such as chronic prostatitis. ...
Palliative care, which focuses on the management of phenomena that produce discomfort and otherwise undermine the quality of life of patients with incurable medical disorders, is a clinical specialty that is just beginning to define itself in the United States. This first volume in the Topics in Palliative Care series will discuss palliative care ...
Palliative care is now an integral part of the undergraduate medical curriculum. Medical education across the board is adopting a case-based approach. This book uses a series of cases to illustrate critical points in palliative medicine. The case-studies have been carefully chosen to reflect real life clinical practice. The contributors illustrate ...
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