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Palliative Care Nursing Sheila Payne

Palliative Care Nursing By Sheila Payne

Palliative Care Nursing by Sheila Payne

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Summary

Focusing on palliative care for adults, this work covers key issues including: what happens to people as they become ill; how individuals cope as they near death and are dying; and, how families and friends deal with bereavement and loss. It also includes a section that addresses contemporary issues in nursing and inter-professional working.

Palliative Care Nursing Summary

Palliative Care Nursing: Principles and Evidence for Practice by Sheila Payne

...this is an excellent book that is interesting, easy to read and very useful for health care professionals. - Palliative Medicine. This innovative interdisciplinary textbook reviews current research and examines the evidence base for palliative care practice. Focusing on palliative care for adults, the first three sections use a novel framework - the trajectory of life-limiting illness - to cover key issues including: what happens to people as they become ill; how individuals cope as they near death and are dying; and, how families and friends deal with bereavement and loss. The final section addresses contemporary issues in nursing and inter-professional working. The book contains helpful overviews and is written in an informative and reader-friendly style. Palliative Care Nursing is essential reading for post-qualifying nursing students and all nurses and health/social care professionals who provide care to people with advanced illness and those who are near the end of life.

About Sheila Payne

Sheila Payne leads the Palliative and End-of-Life Care Research Group at the University of Sheffield. She is series editor for the highly regarded series Health Psychology and her other books include Psychology for Nurses and the Caring Professions and Loss and Bereavement. Jane Seymour is a senior lecturer at the Palliative and End-of-Life Care Research Group at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses primarily on older people's knowledge, attitudes and experiences of end of life care. Christine Ingleton is Head of Department of the Community, Ageing, Rehabilitation, Education and Research (C.A.R.E.R.) at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests focus on evaluation of palliative care services and the provision and efficacy of palliative respite services.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Encountering illness Overview History, gender and culture in the rise of palliative care What's in a name?: a concept analysis of key terms in palliative care nursing User involvement and palliative care: rhetoric or reality? Referral patterns and access into specialist palliative care Acute hospital care Transitions in status from wellness to illness, illness to wellness: coping with recurrence and remission Communication, the patient and the palliative care team Approaches to assessment in palliative care Part 2: Transitions into the terminal phase Overview Good for the soul?: the spiritual dimension of hospice and palliative care Working with difficult symptoms Pain: theories, evaluation and management Emotions and cognitions: psychological aspects of care Working with family caregivers in a palliative care setting Supporting families of terminally ill persons Social death: the impact of protracted dying No way in: including the excluded at the end of life Ethical issues at the end of life: a very short introduction The impact of socialization on the dying process Palliative care in institutions Part 3: Loss and bereavement Overview Nursing care at the time of death Organ and tissue donation: helping patients and families to make choices The care and support of bereaved people Bereavement support: the perspective of community nurses Risk assessment and bereavement services Bereavement support services Families and children facing loss and bereavement: childhood bereavement services - a diversity of models and practices Part 4: Contemporary issues Overview Professional boundaries in palliative care The cost of caring: surviving the culture of niceness, occupational stress and coping strategies Specialist professional education in palliative care: how did we get here and where are we going? Information and communication technology in nursing: current role and future scope Research and scholarship in palliative care nursing Developing expert palliative care nursing through research and practice development Policy, audit, evaluation and clinical governance Leading and managing nurses in a changing environment Conclusion Indexes.

Additional information

GOR004527273
9780335212439
0335212433
Palliative Care Nursing: Principles and Evidence for Practice by Sheila Payne
Sheila Payne
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Open University Press
20040301
624
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