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Palliative care nursing : quality care to the end of life / [edited by] Marianne Matzo, Deborah Witt Sherman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Springer Publishing Company, LLC, [2019]Copyright date: �2019Edition: Fifth editionDescription: 1 online resource (xvii, 727 pages): illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780826127198
  • 0826127193
Uniform titles:
  • Palliative care nursing (Matzo)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Palliative care nursing.DDC classification:
  • 616/.029 23
LOC classification:
  • RT87.T45 P343 2019eb
NLM classification:
  • WY 152.3
Online resources:
Contents:
Understanding Palliative Care -- Caring for the whole Person and His or Her Family -- Physical Health: Threatening Diseases -- Physical Health: Symptom management.
Summary: 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.
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Electronic Book Electronic Book Kuakarun Nursing Library Processing unit WY 152.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online Access Eb33749
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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.

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