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Titolo: |
Palliative nursing : across the spectrum of care / / edited by Elaine Stevens, Susan Jackson, Stuart Milligan
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Pubblicazione: | Chichester, UK ; ; Ames, Iowa, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (351 p.) |
Disciplina: | 616.029 |
616/.029 | |
Soggetto topico: | Palliative treatment |
Terminal care | |
Nursing | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: |
StevensElaine M. <1960->
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Palliative Nursing; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; PART ONE ADULT PALLIATIVE CARE; Section One History and Ethos of Palliative Care; 1 The history of palliative care; 2 Definitions and aims of palliative care; 3 Providing palliative care for marginalised and disenfranchised people; Section Two Palliative Nursing Across Care Settings; 4 Palliative nursing care in the acute hospital; 5 Palliative nursing care in the community; 6 Palliative nursing care in nursing and residential care homes; 7 Palliative nursing care in hospices |
Section Three Palliative Nursing Care for People with Specific Illnesses8 Palliative nursing care in heart failure; 9 Palliative care in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; 10 Palliative care for people who have dementia; 11 Palliative nursing care in other neurological conditions; Huntington's disease; Motor neurone disease; Multiple sclerosis; Parkinson's disease; 12 Palliative care for people with end stage renal disease; 13 Palliative care issues for people with cancer | |
14 Palliative nursing care for people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)PART TWO PALLIATIVE CARE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE; 15 The history and ethos of palliative care for children and young people; 16 Challenges of providing paediatric palliative care in the hospital setting; 17 Children's palliative care in the hospice and the community; PART THREE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH; 18 Palliative nursing education and continuing professional development; 19 Palliative care research; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Palliative Nursing is an evidence-based practical guide for nurses working in areas of practice where general palliative care is provided. This may be in hospitals, nursing homes, dementia units, the community and any other clinical areas which are not classified as specialist palliative care. This book first explores the history and ethos of palliative care, and then looks at palliative nursing across various care settings. It then looks at palliative nursing care for people with specific illnesses, including heart failure, dementia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cancer, an |
Titolo autorizzato: | Palliative nursing ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-282-38520-8 |
9786612385209 | |
1-4443-2270-2 | |
1-4443-2271-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910139969103321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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