Palliative care nursing : quality care to the end of life / / Marianne Matzo, Deborah Witt Sherman, editors

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Springer, c2009
• Edizione: 3rd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (593 p.)
• Disciplina: 616/.029
• Soggetto topico: Terminal care; Palliative treatment; Hospice nurses
• Altri autori: MatzoMarianne ShermanDeborah Witt
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Contributors; Foreword: Extending the Embrace of Palliative Nursing; Preface; SECTION I: CARING FOR 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: ""This textbook has...introduced concepts and methods of education which [help] to move palliative nursing forward as an evidenced based practice of whole person care."". -- Betty Ferrell, PhD, FAAN. Research Scientist (From the Foreword). Palliative care is a philosophy of caregiving that integrates disease modification with supportive, compassionate therapies for patients at the end of life. Palliative care nurses are responsible for alleviating pain and other physical symptoms-along with satisfying the emotional, social, cultural, and spiritual needs of patients who are facing life-threaten
• Titolo autorizzato: Palliative care nursing
• ISBN: 1-282-55751-3; 9786612557514; 0-8261-5792-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911100147603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II