Hospice care for children /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Armstrong-Dailey, Ann, Zarbock, Sarah F.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Edition:	3rd ed.
Subjects:	Terminally ill children > Care. Hospice care. Terminal care. Specialty hospitals. Medical care. Attitude (Psychology) Health services administration. Bereavement. National health services. Hospitals. Emotions. Health facilities. Therapeutics. Terminal care facilities. Hospices (Terminal care) Grief. Infants. Organization. Children. Death > Psychological aspects. Community Health Services Terminal Care Hospitals, Special Age Groups. Delivery of Health Care Attitude Health Services Administration Bereavement Health Services Hospitals Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms. Persons. Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation. Patient Care Emotions Health Facilities Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services. Psychiatry and Psychology. Therapeutics Named Groups. Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment. Hospices Grief Infant Organization and Administration Child Attitude to Death Hospice Care Patient Care Management > methods Patient Care Management State Medicine Hospitals, General Enfants malades en phase terminale > Soins. Soins en phase terminale. Hôpitaux spécialisés. Prestation de soins. Attitude (Psychologie) Services de santé > Administration. Deuil. Services de santé. Hôpitaux. Soins médicaux. Émotions. Équipements sanitaires. Thérapeutique. Équipements de soins en phase terminale. Chagrin. Nourrissons. Organisation. Enfants. Mort > Aspect psychologique. Enfance. mourning. hospitals (institutions, health facility) emotion. health facilities. terminal care facilities. grief. infants. children (people by age group) treating (health care function) childhood. Terminal care facilities Terminal care Specialty hospitals Organization National health services Medical care Infants Health services administration Health facilities Death > Psychological aspects Children Hospice care Terminally ill children > Care Medicine. Health & Biological Sciences. Pediatrics. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Children's understanding of death / Kathleen W. Faulkner
Pain and symptom management / Susan M. Huff and Nancy Hutton
Psychosocial aspects of serious illness in childhood and adolescence : responding to the storm / Martha Blechar Gibbons
The spectrum of palliative nursing care of children and their families across settings / Veronica D. Feeg and Melissa Dodd Inglese
Neonatal death / Cheryl Marco Naulty
Care for the child with HIV infection and AIDS / Lori Wiener [and others]
Caring for bereaved parents / J. William Worden and James R. Monahan
After a child dies: helping the siblings / Betty Davies
Spiritual care of children and parents / Paul Thayer and Robert Nee
Staff support in pediatric hospice care / Lizabeth H. Sumner
Volunteers in pediatric palliative care programs: changing medical environment / Paul R. Brenner
The essential role of school bereavement programs / John D. Golenski.
Therapeutic play and creative arts : helping children cope with illness, death, and grief / Christina D. Brown
The primary care physician's role in hospice care / Ron S. Levin
Children's hospice and palliative care worldwide / Joan Marston [and others]
Pediatrics and palliative care : learning from one another / Ira Byock
Children's Hospice International Program for All-Inclusive Care for Children and Their Families (CHI PACC) / Patricia A. Lowe [and others]
Palliative care across a pediatric post-acute health-care system / Eileen Chisari, Edwin Simpser, and Burton Grebin
Ethical decision making at the end of life / Cynda Hylton Rushton
Incorporating children in an adult hospice program / Stacy F. Orloff
Death-related literature for children and adolescents: selected, annotated, and with guidelines and resources for adults / Charles A. Corr.