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Titolo: | Palliative care nursing [[electronic resource] ] : 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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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.: | 9910459068803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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