Essentials of Palliative Care

Essentials of Palliative Care
Author: Nalini Vadivelu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2012-11-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1461451647

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:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781926923116

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.

Hospice and Palliative Care

Hospice and Palliative Care
Author: Stephen R. Connor
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2009-04-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1135849196

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.

Essentials in Hospice and Palliative Care

Essentials in Hospice and Palliative Care
Author: Katherine Murray
Publisher: Life and Death Matters
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2017-09-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781926923130

A companion workbook to 'Essentials in Hospice and Palliative Care: A Practical Resource for Every Nurse," that actively engages you to help solidify your knowledge of hospice and palliative care. The workbook promotes learning the practical application of hospice and palliative care principles and procedures using creative activities.

Integrating a Palliative Approach

Integrating a Palliative Approach
Author: Katherine Murray
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2014-09-17
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781926923055

This workbook is a companion to the text, 'Integrating A Palliative Approach: Essentials for Personal Support Workers.' It provides a variety of learning tools such as: exercises, activities, role-plays, puzzles, questions and discussion topics to assist the learner in becoming more competent, confident, and compassionate in providing excellent care to those who are dying and their families.

Hospice and Palliative Care for Companion Animals

Hospice and Palliative Care for Companion Animals
Author: Amir Shanan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2017-04-17
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1119036666

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

Notes on Symptom Control in Hospice & Palliative Care

Notes on Symptom Control in Hospice & Palliative Care
Author: Peter Kaye
Publisher:
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1990
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

Dame Cicely Saunders, founder and president of St. Christopher's Hospice in London (1967), shares her vision of hospice and palliative care, and discusses lessons to be learned from the dying.