Care of the Imminently Dying
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Erschienen am 20. November 2015
192 Seiten
978-0-19-024430-9 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Palliative care is an essential element of our health care system and is becoming increasingly significant amidst an aging society and organizations struggling to provide both compassionate and cost-effective care. Palliative care is also characterized by a string interdisciplinary approach. Nurses are at the center of the palliative care team across settings and populations. The seventh volume in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series, Care of the Imminently Dying provides an overview of symptom management when a patient is reaching the end of their life. This volume covers delirium and the advantages of early diagnosis, determining the presence of dyspnea, death rattle, or cough, urgent syndromes that may appear the end of life, palliative sedation, and the withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies. 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.
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Judith Paice
Care of the Imminently Dying
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01/2016
Oxford University Press Inc
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Judith Paice is the Director of the Cancer Pain Program in the Division of Hematology-Oncology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.
Inhalt
Chapter 1
Delirium
Debra E. Heidrich and Nancy K. English
Chapter 2
Dyspnea, Death Rattle, and Cough
Deborah Dudgeon
Chapter 3
Urgent Syndromes at the End of Life
Barton T. Bobb
Chapter 4
Sedation for Refractory Symptoms
Patti Knight, Laura A. Espinosa, and Bonnie Freeman
Chapter 5
Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Therapies: Mechanical Ventilation, Dialysis, and Cardiac Devices
Margaret L. Campbell and Linda M. Gorman
Chapter 6
Self-Assessment Test Questions
Judith A. Paice
