Hospice concepts
Subtitle: a guide to palliative care in terminal illness
By: Shirley Ann Smith.
Contributors: Research Press Company.
Publisher: Research Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Champaign, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Hospice care.; Palliative treatment.; Terminal care.; Nursing.; Terminally ill -- Medical care.; Hospice Care.; Palliative Care.; Terminal Care.
Other titles: Guide to palliative care in terminal illness; Palliative care in terminal illness
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hospice philosophy, history, and goals --; title: Interdisciplinary team --; title: Family dynamics and therapeutic communication --; title: Disease processes common to hospice --; title: Imminent death --; title: Concepts of grief and bereavement --; title: Spiritual care --; title: Pain management --; title: Symptom control --; title: Palliative nutrition and hydration --; title: Legal and ethical issues --; title: Continuity of care and the medicare hospice benefit -- -- appendix a.; title: Chapter tests -- -- appendix b.; title: Test answers.