Nursing Care at the End of Life What Every Clinician Should Know
Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know should be an essential component of basic educational preparation for the professional registered nurse student. Recent studies show that only one in four nurses feel confident in caring for dying patients and their families and less...
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| Language: | English |
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Open SUNY
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Anticipation
- 1. A Historical Overview of End-of-Life Care
- 2. Types and Variability within Illness Trajectories
- 3. Conceptual Frameworks Guiding Death & Dying
- 4. Models of Organized End-of-Life Care: Palliative Care vs. Hospice
- 5. Initiating Conversations about Goals of Care
- Part II. In the Moment
- 6. Management of Pain and Physical Symptoms
- 7. Management of Emotional and Spiritual Distress
- 8. Ethical Concerns in End-of-Life Care
- 9. Care at the Time of Death
- 10. Nurse–Patient–Family Communication
- Part III. Afterwards
- 11. Diversity in Dying: Death across Cultures
- 12. Grief and Bereavement