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Palliative Nursing : Across the Spectrum of Care

ISBN: 9781405169974 | 1405169974
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 5/4/2009

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Palliative Nursing is an evidence-based practical guide for nurses working in areas of practice where general palliative care is provided. This may be in hospitals, nursing homes, dementia units, the community and any other clinical areas which are not classified as specialist palliative care.This book first explores the history and ethos of palliative care, and then looks at palliative nursing across various care settings. It then looks at palliative nursing care for people with specific illnesses, including heart failure, dementia, chronic ob... MORE
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Contributorsp. viii
Forewordp. xiv
Introductionp. xvii
Adult Palliative Care
History and Ethos of palliative Care
The history of palliative carep. 5
Definitions and aims of palliative carep. 17
Providing palliative care for marginalised and disenfranchised peoplep. 35
Palliative Nursing Across Care Settings
Palliative nursing care in the acute hospitalp. 53
Palliative nursing care in the communityp. 72
Palliative nursing care in nursing and residential care homesp. 86
Palliative nursing care in hospicesp. 99
Palliative Nursing Care for People with Specific Illnesses
Palliative nursing care in heart failurep. 115
Palliative care in chronic obstructive pulmonary diseasep. 125
Palliative care for people who have dementiap. 142
Palliative nursing care in other neurological conditionsp. 156
Huntington's diseasep. 156
Motor neurone diseasep. 164
Multiple Sclerosisp. 175
Parkinson's diseasep. 181
Palliative care for people with end stage renal diseasep. 204
Palliative care issues for people with cancerp. 220
Palliative nursing care for people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)p. 241
Palliative Care for Children and Young People
The History and ethos of palliative care for children and young peoplep. 257
Challenges of providing paediatric palliative care in the hospital settingp. 269
Children's palliative care in the hospice and the communityp. 277
Education and Research
Palliative nursing education and continuing professional developmentp. 291
Palliative care researchp. 312
Indexp. 325
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Elaine Stevens is the current chair of The Palliative Nursing Forum of The Royal College of Nursing. She is also programme leader for the palliative care named award at degree level at The University of The West of Scotland, and she manages the education service at The Ayrshire Hospice

Susan Jackson is programmeleader for the Post Graduate Certificate in Cancer and Palliative Care at the University of West of Scotland, and is education facilitator with ACCORD Hospice in Paisley.

Stuart Milligan is Lecturerin Palliative Care at the University of the West of Scotland, and Education Facilitator at Ardgowan Hospice, Greenock.



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