End of life nursing care / Belinda Poor, Gail P. Poirrier.
Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Jones and Bartlett, c2001.Description: xvi, 471 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780763714215
- 0763714216
- 362.175 POO
- 362.1/75 21
- R726.8 .P65 2001
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Unit 1: Introduction--1. Palliative care and quality of life in caring for the dying--Unit 11: Theoretical foundations:- 2. Introduction to theoretical foundations--3. Holistic models--4. Applications of theories to nursing--Unit 111:- Responses to loss:- 5. Loss, grief and bereavement--6. Grief and bereavement: yours and mine--7. The kaleidoscope of culture: Issues of death and dying, grief and bereavement-- Unit IV: Ethical and legal considerations:- 8. The ethics of end of life care--9. Legal and ethical issues and advance directives--Unit V: Patient centered care:- 10. Hospice: To make the path less lonely--11. Palliative care: the essence of nursing--12. Pain and symptom management--13. Issues of suffering at the end of life--14. Psychosocial issues in palliative care: a matter of acceptance--15. Spiritual perspective in end of life care-- Unit VI: Communication:- 16. Communicating with the dying patient--17. Communication with dying patients and family members: a body, minnd and spirit approach.--18. Communicating end of life issues among professionals--Unit VII: Management of specific terminal illnesses:- 19. Care of the dying canceer patient--20. Cardiovascular and pulmonary disorders--21. Caring for the patient dying with a neurological disorder--22. End of life experience and care for the aids patient--23. Euthanasia, suicide and the terminally ill--24. End of life care for alcoholic patients--Unit Viii: Issues across the lifespan:- 25. Unspeakable losses: Miscarriage and perinatal death--26. Children and end of life issues--27. Death and the young adult--28. The end of life for the older adult--Unit IX: The end of Life:- 29. The pathophysiology of death and the dying process--Unit X: Caring for the caregiver:-30. Extending the circle of care when death is imminent--31. Taking care of yourself.