Palliative care nursing
Subtitle: quality care to the end of life
By: Marianne Matzo, Deborah Witt Sherman, editors.
Contributors: Matzo, Marianne.; Sherman, Deborah Witt.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780826157911
Subjects: Terminal care; Palliative treatment; Hospice nurses; Terminal Care; Critical Illness -- nursing; Hospice Care -- psychology; Palliative Care
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Culture and spirituality as domains of quality palliative care / Deborah Witt Sherman; title: Sexual health and intimacy / Marianne Matzo; title: Holistic integrative therapies / Carla Mariano; title: Societal perspectives regarding palliative care / Marilyn Bookbinder & Marlene McHugh; title: The nurses role in interdisciplinary and palliative care / Lisa M. Krammer ... [et al.]; title: Development of the specialty of hospice and palliative care nursing / Judy Lentz, Deborah Witt Sherman; title: Ethical aspects of palliative care / Judith Kennedy Schwartz & Anita J. Tarzian; title: Legal aspects of end-of-life decision making / Kathleen Ouimet Perrin; title: Communicating with seriously ill and dying patients, their families, and their health care providers / Kathleen Ouimet Perrin; title: Family caregivers / Kay Blum; title: Loss, suffering, bereavement, and grief / Mertie L. Potter; title: Cancer / Amy E. Guthrie, Polly Mazanec; title: End stage heart disease / Judith Dyne; title: Chronic lung disease / Mary Brennan; title: Neurological disorders / Christine Kovach, Sheila Reynolds; title: End stage renal disease / Lynn R. Roland; title: End stage liver disease / Robert Davis; title: HIV/AIDS / Deborah Witt Sherman; title: Pain assessment and pharmacological/non-pharmacological interventions / Nessa Coyle & Mary Layman-Goldstein; title: Dyspnea / Cindy R. Balkstra; title: Anxiety, depression, and delirium / Constance M. Dahlin; title: Gastrointestinal symptoms / Pamala D. Larsen & Laura Meloche; title: Fatigue and weakness evaluation and management / Marianne Matzo, Patsy R. Smith & Deborah Witt Sherman; title: Skin care needs of palliative patients / Elizabeth A. Ayello, R. Gary Sibbald & Kevin Y. Woo; title: Peri-death nursing care / Marianne Matzo & Jane A. Hill.