Hospice care for children
By: edited by Ann Armstrong-Dailey, Sarah Zarbock.
Contributors: Armstrong-Dailey, Ann.; Zarbock, Sarah F.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9780195340709
Subjects: Terminally ill children -- Care; Hospice care; Child; Hospice Care; Attitude to Death; Grief; Hospices -- organization & administration; Infant
Description: This text, the first edition of which won the 1993 Pediatric Nursing Book of the Year Award, provides an authoritative source for the many people involved in caring for dying children. The practical topics can be put to immediate use.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Children's understanding of death / Kathleen W. Faulkner; title: Pain and symptom management / Susan Huff and Nancy Hutton; title: Psychosocial aspects of serious illness in childhood and adolescence : responding to the storm / Martha Blechar Gibbons; title: The spectrum of palliative nursing care of children and their families across settings / Veronica D. Feeg and Melissa Dodd Inglese; title: Neonatal death / Cheryl Marco Naulty; title: Care for the child with HIV infection and AIDS / Lori Wiener ... [et al.]; title: Caring for bereaved parents / J. William Worden and James R. Monahan; title: After a child dies: helping the siblings / Betty Davies; title: Spiritual care of children and parents / Paul Thayer and Robert Nee; title: Staff support in pediatric hospice care / Lizabeth H. Sumner; title: Volunteers in pediatric palliative care programs: changing medical environment / Paul R. Brenner; title: The essential role of school bereavement programs / John D. Golenski; title: Therapeutic play and creative arts: helping children cope with illness, death, and grief / Christina D. Brown; title: The primary care physician's role in hospice care / Ron S. Levin; title: Children's hospice and palliative care worldwide / Joan Marston ... [et al.]; title: Pediatrics and palliative care: learning from one another / Ira Byock; title: Children's Hospice International Program for All-Inclusive Care for Children and Their Families (CHI PACC) / Patricia Lowe ... [et al.]; title: Palliative care across a pediatric post acute healthcare system / Eileen Chisari, Edwin Simpser, and Burton Grebin; title: Ethical decision making at the end of life / Cynda Hylton Rushton; title: Incorporating children in an adult hospice program / Stacy F. Orloff; title: Death-related literature for children and adolescents: selected, annotated, and with guidelines and resources for adults / Charles A. Corr.