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Palliative care nursing : quality care to the end of life / [edited by] Marianne Matzo, Deborah Witt Sherman. - Fifth edition. - 1 online resource (xvii, 727 pages): illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Understanding Palliative Care -- Caring for the whole Person and His or Her Family -- Physical Health: Threatening Diseases -- Physical Health: Symptom management.

Palliative Care Nursing, Fifth Edition, delivers advanced empirical, aesthetic, ethical and personal knowledge. This new edition brings an increased focus on outcomes, benchmarking progress, and goals of care. It expounds upon the importance of the cross-disciplinary collaboration introduced in the previous edition. Every chapter in Sections I, II, and III includes content written by a non-nursing member of the interprofessional team. Based on best-evidence and clinical practice guidelines, this text presents comprehensive, targeted interventions responsive to the needs of palliative and hospice patients and family. Each chapter contains compassionate, timely, appropriate, and cost-effective care for diverse populations across the illness trajectory.

ISBN: 9780826127198 0826127193

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Palliative treatment.
Terminal care.
Hospice nurses.
Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing.
Critical Illness--nursing.
Terminal Care.
Quality of Health Care.
HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General.
MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL / Diseases.
MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL / Internal Medicine.
Hospice nurses.
Palliative treatment.
Terminal care.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: RT87.T45 / P343 2019eb

Dewey Class. No.: 616/.029

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WY 152.3