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Palliative care nursing : quality care to the end of life / Marianne LaPorte Matzo, Deborah Witt Sherman, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terminal care.
- Palliative treatment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 476 pages) : illustrations, portraits
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer Pub. Co., c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Designated a Doody's Core Title!. Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award. The second edition of this award-winning text provides the essential guide to achieving best practices in palliative care nursing. It offers a blend of holistic, spiritual, cultural, and humanistic caring coupled with aggressive management of pain and symptoms associated with advanced disease. With over 20 percent of the book covering pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic pain management, and with a focus on both clinical and holistic treatment, major figures in the field of palliative care nursing outline eleven specific
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Education Plans for Achieving Competencies; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Section I: Looking at the Whole Person in Palliative Care; Section II: Social and Professional Issues in Palliative Care; Section III: Psychosocial Considerations; Section IV: Physical Aspects of Dying; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-95809-X
- 9786610958092
- 0-8261-5793-9
- OCLC:
- 437109795
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