Nursing care at the end of life : palliative care for patients and families / Joyce V. Zerwekh.
| Author/creator | Zerwekh, Joyce V. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : F.A. Davis Co., ©2006. |
| Description | xviii, 453 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The end of life and end-of-life caregiving -- Hospice and palliative care -- Strategies to stay healthy -- Collaborating with an interdisciplinary team -- Understanding the dying experience -- Connecting and caring presence -- Grief and mourning -- Cross-cultural competency at the end of life -- Ethical issues at the end of life -- Spiritual caring -- Understanding and strengthening families -- Children facing death -- Understanding and anticipating the course of terminal disease -- Comforting and the essentials of pain relief at the end of life -- Medicating for pain at the end of life -- Management of physical nonpain symptoms -- Caring in different settings when death is imminent. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2005027123 |
| ISBN | 0803611285 : |
| ISBN | 9780803611283 |