Palliative care nursing
Subtitle: quality care to the end of life
By: editors, Marianne Matzo, Deborah Witt Sherman
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Springer Pub. Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780826157911; 9780826157928
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Culture and spirituality as domains of quality palliative care   -- Deborah Witt Sherman; title: Holistic integrative therapies in palliative care   -- Carla Mariano; title: Sexual health and intimacy   -- Marianne Matzo; title: Societal perspectives regarding palliative care   -- Marilyn Bookbinder & Marlene McHugh; title: The nurse's 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 decision making in palliative care   -- 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, grief, and bereavement  -- Mertie L. Potter; title: Cancer   -- Amy E. Guthrie & Polly Mazanec; title: End-stage heart disease   -- Judith B. Dyne; title: Chronic lung disease   -- Mary Brennan; title: Neurological disorders   -- Christine R. Kovach & Sheila Reynolds; title: End-stage renal disease   -- Lynn Roland; title: End-stage liver disease   -- Robert B. Davis; title: Palliative care for patients with HIV/AIDS   -- Deborah Witt Sherman; title: Pain assessment and pharmacological/nonpharmacological 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 Mallett; 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.