End-of-life nursing care : a guide for best practice /

This very accessible, straightforward book helps to allay those concerns and enables pre-registration students to prepare confidently for the challenges they will face when they are caring for dying patients and supporting their families. Each chapter is based on a different and realistic scenario -...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	De Souza, Joanna (Author), Pettifer, Annie (Author)
Corporate Author:	Sage Publications
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Los Angeles : SAGE, 2016.
Subjects:	Terminal care. Palliative treatment. Terminal Care > Case Reports. Nursing Care > Case Reports. Palliative Care > Case Reports. Palliativpflege. Sterbender. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

chapter 1. End-of-life care : a historical perspective
chapter 2. Assessing holistic needs
chapter 3. Responding to questions about the end of life
chapter 4. Making difficult decisions using ethical and legal frameworks
chapter 5. Calling in the palliative care team
chapter 6. Managing physical symptoms
chapter 7. Discharging patients approaching the end of life
chapter 8. Knowing when a patient is in the last days of life
chapter 9. Care after death
chapter 10. Sudden or unexpected death
chapter 11. Supporting family and friends
chapter 12. Resolving my own feelings after a patient has died.