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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
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.
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