Nurse to Nurse Palliative Care

Authors:

Margaret L. Campbell

Brand: McGraw Hill / Medical

ISBN: 9780071493239

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Palliative care as only a nurse can teach it

Includes full-text PDA download!

In this highly useful book, Campbell shared with you everything you must know about providing the best possible care to end-of-life patients and their families.

Vignettes, clinical pearls, and nursing alerts help you to understand::

The nurses role in providing care to dying patients
Special approaches to talking with patients and their families
Patient and family needs
Withdrawal of life-sustaining devices
Nurses grief

Product Details

Brand McGraw Hill / Medical

Reference 45703

EAN13 9780071493239

ISBN 9780071493239

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Publication date: 2008
Issue number: 1
Cover: paperback
Dimensions (mm): 122 x 188
Weight (g): 277

Nurses Pocket Guide to Palliative Care
I.Nurses role in providing care to dying patients
a.ANA Scope and Standards of Practice
b.ANA Social Policy Statement
II.Patient Characteristics
a.Trajectories
b.Settings
c.Diagnoses
III. Needs
a.Patients
b.Families
IV.Communication
a.Nurses role
b.Collaboration with physicians
c.Breaking bad news
d.Discussing treatment goals and DNR
e.Discussing hospice
f.Imminent death notification
g.Death notification
h.Discussing organ or tissue donation
i.Discussing autopsy
V.Symptom assessment and management
a.Pain
b.Dyspnea
c.Nausea and Vomiting
d.Fear
e.Anxiety
f.Delirium
g.Anorexia
h.Constipation
VI.Withdrawing life-sustaining treatments
a.Mechanical ventilation
b.Dialysis
c.Pacemakers, AICD
d.Artificial nutrition and hydration
VII.Anticipatory Grief
a.Patient needs and interventions
b.Family needs and interventions
VIII.After death care
a.Body
b.Family
IX.Nurse self-care