Palliative Care Nursing: Quality Care to the End of Life

by Matzo, Marianne LaPorte

• ISBN13: 9780826113849
• ISBN10: 0826113842
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: SPRINGER PUB CO INC

Summary

New Hampshire Community Technical College, Manchester. Provides information on the best practices for quality care at the end of life. Organized around 15 competencies in palliative care developed by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. For students and nurses at all levels.

Table of Contents

List of Education Plans	ix
Contributors	xi
Foreword	xiii
Betty Rolling Ferrell
Preface	xvii
Deborah Witt Sherman
Marianne LaPorte Matzo
PART 1 Holistic Aspects of Palliative Care
Spiritually and Culturally Competent Palliative Care	3	(45)
Deborah Witt Sherman
Holistic Integrative Therapies in Palliative Care	48	(41)
Carla Mariano
PART 2 Social Aspects of Palliative Care
Death and Society	89	(29)
Marilyn Bookbinder
Margaret Kiss
The Nurse's Role in Interdisciplinary and Palliative Care	118	(22)
Lisa M. Krammer
Aileen A. Ring
Jeanne Martinez
Mary Jo Jacobs
Mary Beth Williams
Ethical Aspects of Palliative Care	140	(40)
Judith Kennedy Schwarz
Legal Aspects of Palliative Care	180	(39)
Gloria C. Ramsey
PART 3 Psychological Aspects of Dying
Communicating With Seriously III and Dying Patients, Their Families, and Their Health Care Providers	219	(26)
Kathleen O. Perrin
Caring for Families: The Other Patient in Palliative Care	245	(30)
Suzanne K. Goetschius
Loss, Suffering, Bereavement, and Grief	275	(52)
Mertie L. Potter
PART 4 Physical Aspects of Palliative Care
Symptom Management in Palliative Care	327	(35)
Mary K. Kazanowski
Pain Assessment and Management in Palliative Care	362	(125)
Nessa Coyle
Mary Layman-Goldstein
Peri-Death Nursing Care	487	(31)
Marianne LaPorte Matzo
Appendix 1 Symptom Relief Kit: Health Care Providers Information Sheet	518	(2)
Appendix 2 Symptom Relief Kit: Information Sheet for Patients and Families	520	(3)
Index	523