Palliative Care Nursing
Principles and Evidence for Practice
Published on 1. March 2004
Book
Hardback
791 pages
978-0-335-21492-1 (ISBN)
Description
"...this is an excellent book that is interesting, easy to read and very useful for health care professionals." - "Palliative Medicine". This innovative interdisciplinary textbook reviews current research and examines the evidence base for palliative care practice. Focusing on palliative care for adults, the first three sections use a novel framework - the trajectory of life-limiting illness - to cover key issues including: what happens to people as they become ill; how individuals cope as they near death and are dying; how families and friends deal with bereavement and loss; and the final section addresses contemporary issues in nursing and inter-professional working. The book contains helpful overviews and is written in an informative and reader-friendly style. "Palliative Care Nursing" is essential reading for post-qualifying nursing students and all nurses and health/social care professionals who provide care to people with advanced illness and those who are near the end of life.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Milton Keynes
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 193 mm
Thickness: 49 mm
Weight
1820 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-335-21492-1 (9780335214921)
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Persons
Sheila Payne leads the Palliative and End-of-Life Care Research Group at the University of Sheffield. She is series editor for the highly regarded series Health Psychology and her other books include Psychology for Nurses and the Caring Professions and Loss and Bereavement. Jane Seymour is a senior lecturer at the Palliative and End-of-Life Care Research Group at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses primarily on older people's knowledge, attitudes and experiences of end of life care. Christine Ingleton is Head of Department of the Community, Ageing, Rehabilitation, Education and Research (C.A.R.E.R.) at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests focus on evaluation of palliative care services and the provision and efficacy of palliative respite services.
Content
Section 1: Encountering illness. Overview. History, gender and culture in the rise of palliative care. What's in a name? A concept analysis of key terms in palliative care nursing. User involvement and palliative care: rhetoric or reality? Referral patterns and access into specialist palliative care. Acute hospital care. Transitions in status from wellness to illness, illness to wellness - coping with recurrence and remission. Communication, the patient and the palliative care team. Approaches to assessment in palliative care. Section 2: Transitions into the terminal phase. Overview. Good for the soul? The spiritual dimension of hospice and palliative care. Working with difficult symptoms. Pain: theories, evaluation and management. Balancing feelings and cognitions. Working with family caregivers in a palliative care setting. Supporting families of terminally ill persons. Social death - the impact of protracted dying. Ethical issues at the end of life. A very short introduction. The impact of socialisation on the dying process. No way in: including the excluded at the end of life. Palliative care in institutions. Section 3: Loss and bereavement. Overview. Nursing care at the time of death. Loss and bereavement. The care and support of bereaved people. Bereavement support: the perspective of community nurses. Risk assessment and bereavement services. Bereavement support services. Families and children facing loss and bereavement: childhood bereavement services - a diversity of models and practices. Section 4: Contemporary issues. Overview. Professional boundaries in palliative care. The cost of caring - surviving the culture of niceness, occupational stress and coping strategies. Specialist professional education in palliative care: how did we get here and where are we going? Information and communication technology in nursing - current role and future scope. Research and scholarship in palliative care nursing. Developing expert palliative care nursing through research and practice development. Policy, audit, evaluation and clinical governance. Leading and managing nurses in a changing environment. Conclusion.