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Designed for easy use at the bedside, this manual contains the practical information health care professionals need to provide optimal end-of-life care. The book presents a multidimensional, holistic approach to assessment and management of the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of the patient and family. Topics covered include cultural diversity in end-of-life care; communicating with patients and families; predicting life expectancy; terminal care; non-pain symptom management; pain control; palliative interventions; pediatric palliative care; record keeping; and ethics. The succinct, user-friendly presentation features bullet points and numerous quick-reference tables. Each chapter includes an "In a Nutshell" summary of key points. "Doody's Core Titles™ 2009."
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There will ALWAYS come a time when there is nothing more you can do to cure your patient's disease, but there is ALWAYS something you can do for your patient. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
predicting life expectancy, terminal care, delivering bad news, palliative performance scale, response rate, palliative interventions, death pronouncement, noncancer diagnoses, informing significant others, undertreating pain, oral hydromorphone, pediatric palliative care, terminal delirium, opioid side effects, oral morphine, palliative care patients, hospice benefit, advance care planning, bowel regimen, spiritual assessment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, The Medical College of Wisconsin, Oxford University Press, African Americans, Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine, Pain Symptom Manage, United States, Medicaid Services, Accessed March, Cultural Diversity, Palliat Med, Accessed February, Improving End-of-Life Care, The Palliative Pediatric Patient, Accessed April, Equianalgesic Dosing, Specific Diseases, Converting One Opioid, Full Normal, Accessed July, Psychosoc Nurs, Accessed June, Managing Opioid Side Effects, Allow Natural Death, The World Health Organization Browse Sample Pages:
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There will ALWAYS come a time when there is nothing more you can do to cure your patient's disease, but there is ALWAYS something you can do for your patient. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
predicting life expectancy, terminal care, delivering bad news, palliative performance scale, response rate, palliative interventions, death pronouncement, noncancer diagnoses, informing significant others, undertreating pain, oral hydromorphone, pediatric palliative care, terminal delirium, opioid side effects, oral morphine, palliative care patients, hospice benefit, advance care planning, bowel regimen, spiritual assessment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, The Medical College of Wisconsin, Oxford University Press, African Americans, Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine, Pain Symptom Manage, United States, Medicaid Services, Accessed March, Cultural Diversity, Palliat Med, Accessed February, Improving End-of-Life Care, The Palliative Pediatric Patient, Accessed April, Equianalgesic Dosing, Specific Diseases, Converting One Opioid, Full Normal, Accessed July, Psychosoc Nurs, Accessed June, Managing Opioid Side Effects, Allow Natural Death, The World Health Organization Browse Sample Pages:
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