This second edition builds on the phenomenal success of the first edition. Student nurses are intimately involved in caring for the dying and bereaved. This book takes a sensitive and supportive approach to the key themes of palliative care nursing. It provides the reader with a concise and easy to read yet practical text that will give direction to the challenges faced in this most important ...

Providing an in-depth look at the issues surrounding the palliative care of children, this innovative text considers both malignant and non-malignant cases, and the specialist treatment required. The interdisplinary contributor team spans both education and practice, and chapters contain features by non-medical personnel.

A collection of passages concerning death and dying, and to consider the essential nature of general practice. This book is useful to doctors, especially those with an interest in medical humanities. It is also useful to general readers interested in end of life matters, and the nature and art of medicine.

This volume critically explores and analyses the themes and pragmatics of advancing nursing practice in relation to cancer and palliative care. Each chapter considers key elements of advanced practice in terms of conceptual, practical and organizational themes.

Offers advice for nurses in various specialties and setting providing end-of-life care. Here, nurses learn how to address patients' spiritual concerns, ensure that physical needs are met, help them maintain their dignity, and provide emotional support to grieving families. It also covers stages of dying, pain control, and alternative therapies.

Good counselling skills are often not taught to the professionals who need them most. Compassionate and tactful communication skills can make the difference between an awkward encounter with a dying patient, and an engaging, empathic bond between two people. This book tells how to use counselling skills for clinical disciplines.

Family carers often play a major role in the care of their dying relative and are prone to negative physical, social, financial and psychological outcomes. It is essential that palliative care professionals can provide care to the relative as well as the patient, and this book offers a practical guide to family carer assessment and support.

An authoritative yet concise guide to the provision of palliative care. This book has now been thoroughly revised and reorganized throughout to reflect the changes in this rapidly moving field.

Describes the different types of palliative care models currently used and evaluates their efficacy and cost-effectiveness. The most prevalent symptoms encountered are highlighted as well as the assessment and management of these symptoms, and the instruments used to measure quality of life.

Accompanied by a DVD which contains filmed scenes illustrating a range of challenging dialogues between health workers and a patient and his family through the journey of his terminal illness, this title features booklet that highlights communication issues with suggested exercises, reflection points and advice.

Reflects the policy and developments in the field of palliative care. This book explores the way in which a dying person may wish to cope with his/her death, helping the healthcare professional to understand the patient and therefore produce better quality of care.

Presents the Namaste Care program that helps facilities provide gentle end-of-life care, especially for residents with advanced dementia. Because of their profound losses, these individuals are often isolated with limited human contact during the final stages of their lives. This program promotes peaceful end-of-life experiences for older adults.

When dealing with a severe life limiting illness, both carers and professionals often report that dealing with the psychosocial symptoms is harder than actual physical symptoms. This book offers practical advice on how to elicit and manage the concerns and distress of the patient.

Understanding the psychological, social, and spiritual needs at the end of life is crucial for health care providers. This work provides an overview of end-of-life care, with an emphasis on the team approach to care.

Gives an overview of the end of life care. This course aims to help you to summarise the spiritual, psychological, social, and physical aspects of the process of dying, discuss the needs of caregivers and the needs of individuals at the end of life, list interactions and healing strategies for the dying, and more.

A comprehensive, multimedia course giving an overview of the subject of end of life care. It enables you to recognise major physiologic changes at the end of life related to the cardiovascular system, identify major physiologic changes at the end of life related to the gastrointestinal system, and more.

Gives an overview of the subject of end of life care. This course aims to help the readers to describe the team approach to end-of-life care, discuss the role of hospitalists in end-of-life care for the hospitalised patient, summarise the goals and services of hospice, define and discuss palliative care, and more.

A multimedia course giving an overview of the subject of end of life care. It enables you to describe the role of ethics in end-of-life care in health care, define ethics, describe the key elements of the ethical theories of utilitarianism, deontology, Ross' ethics, natural law ethics, ethical egoism, and virtue ethics, and more.