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Record Nr.

UNINA9910832979103321

Autore

Zerwekh Joyce V (Joyce Valborg)

Titolo

Nursing care at the end of life : palliative care for patients and families / / Joyce V. Zerwekh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : F.A. Davis Co., c2006

ISBN

1-280-81995-2

9786610819959

0-8036-2028-4

1-4294-8050-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (472 p.)

Disciplina

616/.029

Soggetti

Palliative treatment

Nursing

Terminal care - Psychological aspects

Terminally ill - Family relationships

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

The end of life and end-of-life caregiving -- Hospice and palliative care -- Strategies to stay healthy -- Collaborating with an interdisciplinary team -- Understanding the dying experience -- Connecting and caring presence -- Grief and mourning -- Cross-cultural competency at the end of life -- Ethical issues at the end of life -- Spiritual caring -- Understanding and strengthening families -- Children facing death -- Understanding and anticipating the course of terminal disease -- Comforting and the essentials of pain relief at the end of life -- Medicating for pain at the end of life -- Management of physical nonpain symptoms -- Caring in different settings when death is imminent.