Hospice and Palliative Care

Hospice and Palliative Care

Author: Stephen R. Connor

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2009-04-02

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1135849196

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Offers a comprehensive overview of the practice of hospice, as well as the challenges faced by and the direction of the hospice movement. This book provides chapters that address key topics such as the goals and importance of community involvement, outcome measurement, and the manner in which hospices address death, grief, and bereavement.


Hospice and Palliative Care for Companion Animals

Hospice and Palliative Care for Companion Animals

Author: Amir Shanan

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2017-04-17

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1119036666

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Hospice and Palliative Care for Companion Animals: Principles and Practice offers the first comprehensive reference to veterinary hospice and palliative care, with practical guidance and best practices for caring for sick and dying animals. Presents the first thorough resource to providing veterinary hospice and palliative care Offers practical guidance and best practices for caring for sick and dying animals Provides an interdisciplinary team approach, from a variety of different perspectives Gives concrete advice for easing pets more gently through their final stage of life Includes access to a companion website with client education handouts to use in practice


Essentials of Palliative Care

Essentials of Palliative Care

Author: Nalini Vadivelu

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-11-28

Total Pages: 525

ISBN-13: 1461451647

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Essentials of Palliative Care is a to-the-point, clinically oriented resource for all members of the multidisciplinary palliative care team and trainees. It covers practical clinical topics, including assessment of the patient and pain and symptom management, and practical non-medical topics central to providing effective palliative care, including psychological management, guidance on how to help patients and their families through the many healthcare decision points they face, and sensitivity to the goals and culture of the patient. Review questions, with detailed answers, provide a convenient way for readers to test their knowledge. Features: · Concise, comprehensive, clinically focused · Multiple choice review questions, with detailed answers · Expert contributors from leading institutions · Coordination of care by palliative care team a major focus


Essentials in Hospice and Palliative Care

Essentials in Hospice and Palliative Care

Author: Katherine Murray

Publisher:

Published: 2016-09

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781926923116

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Kath Murray has a love for hospice and palliative care and a love for education that is engaging, delicious, and digestible. Her passion is to provide exceptional resources to help nurses, health care workers, and personal support workers provide excellent care for the dying and their family, and to find meaning and value in doing so.


Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work

Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work

Author: Terry Altilio MSW, ACSW, LCSW

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-03-23

Total Pages: 847

ISBN-13: 0199838275

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The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work is a comprehensive, evidence-informed text that addresses the needs of professionals who provide interdisciplinary, culturally sensitive, biopsychosocial-spiritual care for patients and families living with life-threatening illness. Social workers from diverse settings will benefit from its international scope and wealth of patient and family narratives. Unique to this scholarly text is its emphasis on the collaborative nature inherent in palliative care. This definitive resource is edited by two leading palliative social work pioneers who bring together an array of international authors who provide clinicians, researchers, policy-makers, and academics with a broad range of content to enrich the guidelines recommended by the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care.


Pediatric Palliative Care

Pediatric Palliative Care

Author: Betty Ferrell

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0190244186

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Pediatric palliative care is a field of significant growth as health care systems recognize the benefits of palliative care in areas such as neonatal intensive care, pediatric ICU, and chronic pediatric illnesses. Pediatric Palliative Care, the fourth volume in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series, highlights key issues related to the field. Chapters address pediatric hospice, symptom management, pediatric pain, the neonatal intensive care unit, transitioning goals of care between the emergency department and intensive care unit, and grief and bereavement in pediatric palliative care. The content of the concise, clinically focused volumes in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series is one resource for nurses preparing for specialty certification exams and provides a quick-reference in daily practice. Plentiful tables and patient teaching points make these volumes useful resources for nurses.


Palliative Care in Oncology

Palliative Care in Oncology

Author: Bernd Alt-Epping

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-03-26

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 3662462028

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Palliative care provides comprehensive support for severely affected patients with any life-limiting or life-threatening diagnosis. To do this effectively, it requires a disease-specific approach as the patients’ needs and clinical context will vary depending on the underlying diagnosis. Experts in the field of palliative care and oncology describe in detail the needs of patients with advanced cancer in comparison to those with non-cancer disease and also identify the requirements of patients with different cancer entities. Basic principles of symptom control are explained, with careful attention to therapy for pain associated with either the cancer or its treatment and to symptom-guided antineoplastic therapy. Complex therapeutic strategies for palliative cancer patients are highlighted that involve both cancer- and symptom-directed options and address a range of therapeutic aims. Issues relating to drug use in palliative cancer care are fully explored, and a separate section is devoted to care in the final phase. A range of organizational and policy issues are also discussed, and the book concludes by considering likely future developments in palliative care for cancer patients. Palliative Care in Oncology will be of particular interest to palliative care physicians who are interested in broadening the scope of their disease-specific knowledge, as well as to oncologists who wish to learn more about modern palliative care concepts relevant to their day-to-day work with cancer patients.


Onco-Palliative Care Essentials

Onco-Palliative Care Essentials

Author: Azar Naveen Saleem

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2024-06-07

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 0443134529

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Onco-Palliative Care Essentials gives insight into the much-needed specialty to improve the quality of life of cancer patients. With a strong focus the fundamental essentials of onco-palliative care, the book covers real-life cases with challenging cultural, existential, and social aspects. Onco-Palliative Care Essentials introduces the field of Onco-Palliative care to the reader, focusing on managing complex aspects associated with cancer and its treatment. It also helps the reader regarding approaches for "End of life care and discussion. The book concludes with challenging care scenarios. Onco-Palliative Care Essentials is a very useful reference for the all who are involved in cancer and palliative care, as well as those who care for the cancer and terminally ill patients. - Introduces the specialty of onco-palliative care - Explains the concept of providing palliative and support care focusing exclusively on cancer patients - Gives insights on how to diagnose and manage emergencies in palliative care - Digs into the differences involved in the legal and ethical practices with respect to the cultural and social diversities


Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing

Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing

Author: Betty Rolling Ferrell

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-03-04

Total Pages: 935

ISBN-13: 0190862378

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The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing remains the most comprehensive treatise on the art and science of palliative care nursing available. Dr. Betty Rolling Ferrell and Dr. Judith A. Paice have invited 162 nursing experts to contribute 76 chapters addressing the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs pertinent to the successful palliative care team. Organized within 7 Sections, this new edition covers the gamut of principles of care: from the time of initial diagnosis of a serious illness to the end of a patient's life and beyond. This fifth edition features several new chapters, including chapters on advance care planning, organ donation, self-care, global palliative care, and the ethos of palliative nursing. Each chapter is rich with tables and figures, case examples for improved learning, and a strong evidence-based practice to support the highest quality of care. The book offers a valuable and practical resource for students and clinicians across all settings of care. The content is relevant for specialty hospice agencies and palliative care programs, as well as generalist knowledge for schools of nursing, oncology, critical care, and pediatric. Developed with the intention of emphasizing the need to extend palliative care beyond the specialty to be integrated in all settings and by all clinicians caring for the seriously ill, this new edition will continue to serve as the cornerstone of palliative care education.