Care of the Imminently Dying

Buch | Softcover

104 Seiten

2016
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-024428-6 (ISBN)

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Palliative care is an essential element of our health care system and is becoming increasingly significant amidst an aging society and organizations struggling to provide both compassionate and cost-effective care. Palliative care is also characterized by a string interdisciplinary approach. Nurses are at the center of the palliative care team across settings and populations. The seventh volume in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series, Care of the Imminently Dying provides an overview of symptom management when a patient is reaching the end of their life. This volume covers delirium and the advantages of early diagnosis, determining the presence of dyspnea, death rattle, or cough, urgent syndromes that may appear the end of life, palliative sedation, and the withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies. The content of the concise clinically focused volumes in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series provides a quick-reference in daily practice and is an ideal resource for nurses preparing for certification exams.

Judith Paice is the Director of the Cancer Pain Program in the Division of Hematology-Oncology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.

Chapter 1 ; Delirium ; Debra E. Heidrich and Nancy K. English ; Chapter 2 ; Dyspnea, Death Rattle, and Cough ; Deborah Dudgeon ; Chapter 3 ; Urgent Syndromes at the End of Life ; Barton T. Bobb ; Chapter 4 ; Sedation for Refractory Symptoms ; Patti Knight, Laura A. Espinosa, and Bonnie Freeman ; Chapter 5 ; Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Therapies: Mechanical Ventilation, Dialysis, and Cardiac Devices ; Margaret L. Campbell and Linda M. Gorman ; Chapter 6 ; Self-Assessment Test Questions ; Judith A. Paice

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.1.2016
Reihe/Serie	HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Betty Ferrell, Nessa Coyle, Judith Paice
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	198 x 127 mm
Gewicht	68 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Palliativmedizin
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Palliativpflege / Sterbebegleitung
ISBN-10	0-19-024428-3 / 0190244283
ISBN-13	978-0-19-024428-6 / 9780190244286
Zustand	Neuware