Nursing care at the end of life
Subtitle: palliative care for patients and families
By: Joyce V. Zerwekh.
Publisher: F.A. Davis Co.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9780803611283
Subjects: Palliative treatment.; Nursing.; Terminal care -- Psychological aspects.; Terminally ill -- Family relationships.; Hospice Care.; Nursing Care.; Palliative Care.; Terminally Ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The end of life and end-of-life caregiving; title: Hospice and palliative care; title: Strategies to stay healthy; title: Collaborating with an interdisciplinary team; title: Understanding the dying experience; title: Connecting and caring presence; title: Grief and mourning; title: Cross-cultural competency at the end of life; title: Ethical issues at the end of life; title: Spiritual caring; title: Understanding and strengthening families; title: Children facing death; title: Understanding and anticipating the course of terminal disease; title: Comforting and the essentials of pain relief at the end of life; title: Medicating for pain at the end of life; title: Management of physical nonpain symptoms; title: Caring in different settings when death is imminent.