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End-of-life nursing care : a guide for best practice / Joanna De Souza and Annie Pettifer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Souza, Joanna, author.
- Pettifer, Annie, author.
- Series:
- Sage knowledge.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terminal care.
- Palliative treatment.
- Terminal Care--Case Reports.
- Nursing Care--Case Reports.
- Palliative Care--Case Reports.
- Medical Subjects:
- Terminal Care--Case Reports.
- Nursing Care--Case Reports.
- Palliative Care--Case Reports.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (203 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : SAGE, 2016.
- Summary:
- This very accessible, straightforward book helps to allay those concerns and enables pre-registration students to prepare confidently for the challenges they will face when they are caring for dying patients and supporting their families. Each chapter is based on a different and realistic scenario - reflecting a range of circumstances - to demonstrate the essential generic knowledge and skills they need to develop, and draws out the important practical and theoretical issues students should consider and address if patients and their families are to receive the best possible care. Written by two experienced palliative care lecturer/practitioners, and mapping closely to the NMC's 2010 domains, End-of-Life Nursing Care is tailored to the needs of student nurses working with adult patients. Annie Pettifer and Joanna de Souza ...
- Contents:
- chapter 1. End-of-life care : a historical perspective
- chapter 2. Assessing holistic needs
- chapter 3. Responding to questions about the end of life
- chapter 4. Making difficult decisions using ethical and legal frameworks
- chapter 5. Calling in the palliative care team
- chapter 6. Managing physical symptoms
- chapter 7. Discharging patients approaching the end of life
- chapter 8. Knowing when a patient is in the last days of life
- chapter 9. Care after death
- chapter 10. Sudden or unexpected death
- chapter 11. Supporting family and friends
- chapter 12. Resolving my own feelings after a patient has died.
- Notes:
- Part of the SAGE Knowledge collection.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on MARC record for print version.
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9781526401632 (ebook) :
- OCLC:
- 1017716931
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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