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Nursing care at the end of life : palliative care for patients and families
Title
Nursing care at the end of life : palliative care for patients and families / Joyce V. Zerwekh.
ISBN
0803611285 (pbk.)
9780803611283 (pbk.)
Published
Philadelphia : F.A. Davis Co., c2006.
Physical Description
xviii, 453 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 17, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The end of life and end-of-life caregiving
Hospice and palliative care
Strategies to stay healthy
Collaborating with an interdisciplinary team
Understanding the dying experience
Connecting and caring presence
Grief and mourning
Cross-cultural competency at the end of life
Ethical issues at the end of life
Spiritual caring
Understanding and strengthening families
Children facing death
Understanding and anticipating the course of terminal disease
Comforting and the essentials of pain relief at the end of life
Medicating for pain at the end of life
Management of physical nonpain symptoms
Caring in different settings when death is imminent.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Subjects (Medical)
Hospice Care.
Nursing Care.
Palliative Care.
Terminally Ill.
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