1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910813404103321

Autore

Norlander Linda <1949->

Titolo

To comfort always : a nurse's guide to end-of-life care / / Linda Norlander

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Indianapolis, Indiana : , : Sigma Theta Tau International, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-938835-52-2

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

610.7365

Soggetti

Geriatric nursing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Praise""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1_Beginning""; ""Chapter 2_Advance Care Planning""; ""Chapter 3_Chronic Illness and End of Life""; ""Chapter 4_Dementia and End of Life""; ""Chapter 5_Pain Management: It's More Than Knowing the Meds""; ""Chapter 6_Physical Symptom Management""; ""Chapter 7_Suffering: It's Not Just the Pain""; ""Chapter 8_Active Dying: The Final Days and Hours""; ""Chapter 9_After the Death: The Long Journey to the Car""

""Chapter 10_Pediatric End of Life: When a Child is Dying""""Chapter 11_Cultural Sensitivity: Looking Through Different Eyes""; ""Chapter 12: Hospice: The Gold Standard for End-of-Life Care""; ""Chapter 13_Ethical Issues in End-of-Life Care""; ""Chapter 14: A Final Note: Taking Care""; ""Appendix""; ""Index""



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910377819303321

Titolo

Advances in Mechanical Engineering : Selected Contributions from the Conference “Modern Engineering: Science and Education”, Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 2019 / / edited by Alexander N. Evgrafov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-39500-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 239 p. 122 illus.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, , 2195-4356

Disciplina

621

Soggetti

Machinery

Vibration

Dynamics

Transportation engineering

Traffic engineering

Machinery and Machine Elements

Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control

Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book draws together the most interesting recent results to emerge in mechanical engineering in Russia, providing a fascinating overview of the state of the art in the field in that country which will be of interest to a wide readership. A broad range of topics and issues in modern engineering are discussed, including dynamics of machines, materials engineering, structural strength and tribological behavior, transport technologies, machinery quality and innovations. The book comprises selected papers presented at the 8th conference "Modern Engineering: Science and Education", held at the Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic University in May 2019 with the support of the Russian Engineering Union. The authors are experts in various fields of engineering, and all of the papers have been carefully reviewed. The book will be of interest to mechanical engineers, lecturers in



engineering disciplines and engineering graduates.