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Nurse to Nurse: Palliative Care (Nurse to Nurse)

by Margaret L. Campbell

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Palliative care as only a nurse can teach it

Includes full-text PDA download!

In this highly useful book, Campbell shared with you everything you must know about providing the best possible care to end-of-life patients and their families.

Vignettes, clinical pearls, and nursing alerts help you to understand:

  • The nurse's role in providing care to dying patients
  • Special approaches to talking with patients and their families
  • Patient and family needs
  • Withdrawal of life-sustaining devices
  • Nurse's grief

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About the Author

Margaret Campbell, R.N., Ph.D.(c), F.A.A.N., is Associate Director for Research at the Center to Advance Palliative Care Excellence, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, at Wayne State University, and Nurse Practitioner, Palliative Care and Clinical Ethics at the Detroit Receiving Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. She has published more than forty journal articles, six book chapters, and the book Foregoing Life-Sustaining Therapy: How to Care for the Patient Who is Near Death. She has served appointments on various boards, including the Last Acts Task Force on Palliative Care through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing.
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Table of Contents

Nurse's Pocket Guide to Palliative Care

I. Nurses role in providing care to dying patients

a. ANA Scope and Standards of Practice

b. ANA Social Policy Statement

II. Patient Characteristics

a. Trajectories

b. Settings

c. Diagnoses

III. Needs

a. Patients

b. Families

IV. Communication

a. Nurses role

b. Collaboration with physicians

c. Breaking bad news

d. Discussing treatment goals and DNR

e. Discussing hospice

f. Imminent death notification

g. Death notification

h. Discussing organ or tissue donation

i. Discussing autopsy

V. Symptom assessment and management

a. Pain

b. Dyspnea

c. Nausea and Vomiting

d. Fear

e. Anxiety

f. Delirium

g. Anorexia

h. Constipation

VI. Withdrawing life-sustaining treatments

a. Mechanical ventilation

b. Dialysis

c. Pacemakers, AICD

d. Artificial nutrition and hydration

VII. Anticipatory Grief

a. Patient needs and interventions

b. Family needs and interventions

VIII. After death care

a. Body

b. Family

IX. Nurse self-care

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780071493239
Author:
Campbell, Margaret L.
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Author:
Campbell Margaret
Subject:
Nursing - Critical & Intensive care
Subject:
Nursing - Fundamentals & Skills
Subject:
Dying patients, nurse s pocket guide
Subject:
Dying patients, nurse s pocket guide, , 0073528161
Subject:
nurse s pocket guide, 0073528161, palliative care, nursing guide, nursing, end of life care, end of life patients
Subject:
Medical-surgical nursing, nursing practice, 0073281123, 0073281123, 0073281123, I.V. Therapy Demystified, 0071496785, nurse management demystified, 007147241x, drug therapy, medical billing and coding demystified, 0071472207, medical terminology demystifi
Subject:
Medical-surgical nursing, nursing practice, 0073281123, 0073281123, 0073281123, I.V. Therapy Demystified, 0071496785, nurse management demystified, 007147241x, drug therapy, medical billing and coding demystified, 0071472207, medical terminology demystifi
Subject:
Terminal care
Subject:
Nursing Care
Subject:
Emergency medicine
Subject:
Medical-surgical nursing, nursing practice, 0073281123, 0073281123, 0073281123, I.V. Therapy Demystified, 0071496785, nurse management demystified, 007147241x, drug therapy, medical billing and coding demystified, 0071472207, medical terminology demystifi
Subject:
Medical-surgical nursing, nursing practice, 0073281123, 0073281123, 0073281123, I.V. Therapy Demystified, 0071496785, nurse management demystified, 007147241x, drug therapy, medical billing and coding demystified, 0071472207, medical terminology demystifi
Subject:
Nursing
Subject:
Medical-surgical nursing, nursing practice, 0073281123, 0073281123, 0073281123, I.V. Therapy Demystified, 0071496785, nurse management demystified, 007147241x, drug therapy, medical billing and coding demystified, 0071472207, medical terminology demystifi
Subject:
Health and Medicine-Nursing
Copyright:
2008
Series:
Nurse to Nurse
Publication Date:
July 2008
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
Professional and scholarly
Language:
English
Pages:
282
Dimensions:
7.20x4.50x.80 in. .60 lbs.
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