End-of-life : a nurse's guide to compassionate care.

End-of-life : a nurse's guide to compassionate care. - Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007. - viii, 311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Concepts in palliative care -- Essential communication skills -- Ethical considerations -- Legal considerations -- Evidence-based care -- Palliative drug therapy -- Psychosocial, spiritual, and cultural care -- Patients with cancer -- Patients with heart failure -- Patients with neurologic disease -- Patients with pulmonary disease -- Patients with renal disease -- Care of a dying child -- Family and caregiver care -- Support systems -- When death nears -- Bereavement care -- Issues in acute care settings -- Documenting care -- Living with dying.

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Palliative treatment.
Practical nursing.
Terminal care.
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