Palliative Nursing Across the Spectrum of Care

by Stevens, Elaine; Jackson, Susan; Milligan, Stuart

• ISBN13: 9781405169974
• ISBN10: 1405169974
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-04
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Palliative Nursing is an evidence-based practical guide for nurses working in areas of practice where general palliative care is provided. This may be in hospitals, nursing homes, dementia units, the community and any other clinical areas which are not classified as specialist palliative care.This book first explores the history and ethos of palliative care, and then looks at palliative nursing across various care settings. It then looks at palliative nursing care for people with specific illnesses, including heart failure, dementia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cancer, and neurological conditions. Palliative care for children and young people is discussed, and then the book finally looks at education and research in palliative nursing. Palliative Nursing will be essential reading for all nurses working with palliative care patients in a non specialist role, i.e. in hospitals, primary care and nursing homes, as well as nursing students. SPECIAL FEATURES Explores the palliative nursing issues related to specific diseases groups Written in the context of the new national tools, i.e. the end of life initiative, preferred place of care, Liverpool care pathway and Gold standards framework. Each chapter includes practice points and cases to allow the practitioner to undertake guided reflection to improve practice Written by nurses for nurses Provides guidance for nurses working in all four countries of the UK

Author Biography

Elaine Stevens is the current chair of The Palliative Nursing Forum of The Royal College of Nursing. She is also programme leader for the palliative care named award at degree level at The University of The West of Scotland, and she manages the education service at The Ayrshire Hospice

Susan Jackson is programmeleader for the Post Graduate Certificate in Cancer and Palliative Care at the University of West of Scotland, and is education facilitator with ACCORD Hospice in Paisley.

Stuart Milligan is Lecturerin Palliative Care at the University of the West of Scotland, and Education Facilitator at Ardgowan Hospice, Greenock.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. viii
Foreword	p. xiv
Introduction	p. xvii
Adult Palliative Care
History and Ethos of palliative Care
The history of palliative care	p. 5
Definitions and aims of palliative care	p. 17
Providing palliative care for marginalised and disenfranchised people	p. 35
Palliative Nursing Across Care Settings
Palliative nursing care in the acute hospital	p. 53
Palliative nursing care in the community	p. 72
Palliative nursing care in nursing and residential care homes	p. 86
Palliative nursing care in hospices	p. 99
Palliative Nursing Care for People with Specific Illnesses
Palliative nursing care in heart failure	p. 115
Palliative care in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	p. 125
Palliative care for people who have dementia	p. 142
Palliative nursing care in other neurological conditions	p. 156
Huntington's disease	p. 156
Motor neurone disease	p. 164
Multiple Sclerosis	p. 175
Parkinson's disease	p. 181
Palliative care for people with end stage renal disease	p. 204
Palliative care issues for people with cancer	p. 220
Palliative nursing care for people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)	p. 241
Palliative Care for Children and Young People
The History and ethos of palliative care for children and young people	p. 257
Challenges of providing paediatric palliative care in the hospital setting	p. 269
Children's palliative care in the hospice and the community	p. 277
Education and Research
Palliative nursing education and continuing professional development	p. 291
Palliative care research	p. 312
Index	p. 325
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