Book
Essentials in hospice and palliative care : a practical resource for every nurse / Katherine Murray.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781926923116
- ISBN: 1926923111
- Physical Description: xvii, 293 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts ; 28 cm.
- Edition: Revised edition.
- Publisher: Victoria, British Columbia : Life and Death Matters, 2017.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Chapter 1. Understanding the Dying Process. Common Patterns of Dying -- People Have Never Died Like This -- Common Trajectories of Dying -- Reflections. Chapter 2. Integrating a Palliative Approach. Hospice Care Begins -- Evolving Models of Hospice and Palliative Care -- Common Issues in the Process of Providing Care -- The Next Steps for Hospice and Palliative Care -- Shifting Gears: Integrating a Palliative Approach. Chapter 3. Preparing to Care. Preparing to Care: an Essential Practice -- Best Practice: Personal Characteristics and Ways of Being -- Best Practice Interactions -- Personal Strategies for Preparing to Care. Chapter 4. Using Standardized Tools. The Rationale for Using Standardized Tools -- Best Practice for Assessments and Information Sharing -- Screening Tools for Identifying People Who Might Benefit from Integrating a Palliative Approach -- Symptom Screening Tools -- Symptom Assessment Tools -- SBAR Communication Tool -- Psychosocial Assessment Tools -- IDEA Ethical Decision-Making Framework. Chapter 5. Enhancing Physical Comfort. Principles and Practices -- Common Symptoms. Chapter 6. Providing Psychosocial Care. What Is Psychosocial Care? -- Common Psychosocial Responses to the Diagnosis of Life-Limiting Illness -- Supporting People through Times of Transitions -- Experiencing Multiple Losses Due to Progressive Life-Limiting Illness -- Preparing for Expected Losses -- Grief: an Adaptive Response to Loss -- Grief as a Whole Person Experience -- Supporting Hope -- Supporting a Grieving Person -- Facilitating Self-Determination and Autonomy with Advance Care Planning -- Understanding Physician Assisted Dying and Medical Assistance in Dying -- Spirituality and the Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Connection -- Supporting Intimacy and Sexuality -- Strengthening the "Social" in "Psychosocial" -- Supporting Children Whose Loved One Is Dying. Chapter 7. Caring in the Last Days and Hours. Preparing the Person and the Family for the Last Days and Hours -- Preparing to Meet the Person's Needs in the Last Days and Hours -- Providing Care in the Last Days and Hours -- When Death Occurs. Chapter 8. Caring for You! Providing Care for the Dying Will Change You -- Considering Compassion Fatigue -- Preventing Compassion Fatigue -- Closing Thoughts. |
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| Subject: | Terminal care. Hospice care. Hospices (Terminal care) Palliative treatment. Death > Psychological aspects. Hospice nurses. Nursing > Study and teaching. Nursing > Textbooks. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Camosun College Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Interurban Library | RT 87 T45 M87 2017 (Text) | 26040003371644 | Textbook Reserves - 72 hour loan | circ-reserve-72-hour | Not holdable | Available | - |
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| Interurban Library | RT 87 T45 M87 2017 (Text) | 26040003371651 | Textbook Reserves - 72 hour loan | circ-reserve-72-hour | Not holdable | Available | - |
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