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Palliative care nursing : quality care to the end of life / Marianne Matzo, Deborah Witt Sherman, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terminal care.
- Palliative treatment.
- Hospice nurses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (593 p.)
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""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). 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-threaten
- Contents:
- Contents; Contributors; Foreword: Extending the Embrace of Palliative Nursing; Preface; SECTION I: CARING FOR 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:
- 1-282-55751-3
- 9786612557514
- 0-8261-5792-0
- OCLC:
- 613206337
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