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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453975403321

Titolo

Palliative care nursing [[electronic resource] ] : quality care to the end of life / / Marianne LaPorte Matzo, Deborah Witt Sherman, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer Pub. Co., c2006

ISBN

1-280-95809-X

9786610958092

0-8261-5793-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (498 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MatzoMarianne

ShermanDeborah Witt

Disciplina

616.02/9

Soggetti

Terminal care

Palliative treatment

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Education Plans for Achieving Competencies; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Section I: Looking at the Whole Person in Palliative Care; Section II: Social and Professional Issues in Palliative Care; Section III: Psychosocial Considerations; Section IV: Physical Aspects of Dying; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Designated a Doody's Core Title!. Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award. The second edition of this award-winning text provides the essential guide to achieving best practices in palliative care nursing. It offers a blend of holistic, spiritual, cultural, and humanistic caring coupled with aggressive management of pain and symptoms associated with advanced disease. With over 20 percent of the book covering pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic pain management, and with a focus on both clinical and holistic treatment, major figures in the field of palliative care nursing outline eleven specific