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Palliative care nursing : quality care to the end of life / [edited by] Marianne Matzo, Deborah Witt Sherman

Contributor(s): Matzo, Marianne [editor] | Sherman, Deborah Witt [editor]Material type: TextTextEdition: Fifth editionDescription: xvii, 727 pages ; 29 cmISBN: 9780826127129; 0826127126Uniform titles: Palliative care nursing (Matzo) Subject(s): Terminal care | Palliative treatment | Hospice nurses | Terminal Care | Critical Illness -- nursing | Palliative Care | Hospice Care -- psychologyDDC classification: 616.029 LOC classification: RT87.T45 | P343 2019NLM classification: 2018 G-951 | WY 152.3 | WY 152.3
Contents:
Understanding Palliative Care -- Caring for the whole Person and His or Her Family -- Physical Health: Threatening Diseases -- Physical Health: Symptom management
Summary: Palliative Care Nursing, Fifth Edition, delivers advanced empirical, aesthetic, ethical and personal knowledge. This new edition brings an increased focus on outcomes, benchmarking progress, and goals of care. It expounds upon the importance of the cross-disciplinary collaboration introduced in the previous edition. Every chapter in Sections I, II, and III includes content written by a non-nursing member of the interprofessional team. Based on best-evidence and clinical practice guidelines, this text presents comprehensive, targeted interventions responsive to the needs of palliative and hospice patients and family. Each chapter contains compassionate, timely, appropriate, and cost-effective care for diverse populations across the illness trajectory
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Previous edition published in 2015

Includes bibliographical references and index

Understanding Palliative Care -- Caring for the whole Person and His or Her Family -- Physical Health: Threatening Diseases -- Physical Health: Symptom management

Palliative Care Nursing, Fifth Edition, delivers advanced empirical, aesthetic, ethical and personal knowledge. This new edition brings an increased focus on outcomes, benchmarking progress, and goals of care. It expounds upon the importance of the cross-disciplinary collaboration introduced in the previous edition. Every chapter in Sections I, II, and III includes content written by a non-nursing member of the interprofessional team. Based on best-evidence and clinical practice guidelines, this text presents comprehensive, targeted interventions responsive to the needs of palliative and hospice patients and family. Each chapter contains compassionate, timely, appropriate, and cost-effective care for diverse populations across the illness trajectory

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