Palliative care nursing caring for suffering patients
Palliative Care Nursing: Caring for Suffering Patients explores the concept of suffering as it relates to nursing practice. This text helps nurses define and recognize various aspects of suffering across the lifespan and within various patient populations while providing guidance in alleviating suff...
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Sudbury, MA
Jones & Bartlett Learning
c2012
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Table of Contents:
- The nature of suffering and palliative care / Mary Kazanowski, Kathleen Ouimet Perrin
- Suffering in special populations / Mertie L. Potter
- Grieving and suffering / Mertie L. Potter
- Ethical responsibilities and issues in palliative care / Kathleen Ouimet Perrin
- Suffering and palliative care at the end of life / Mary Kazanowski
- Acute and chronic pain as sources of suffering / Caryn A. Sheehan
- Spirituality and suffering / Mertie L. Potter, Sylvia Durette, and Mary Kazanowski
- The search for meaning in suffering / Kathleen Ouimet Perrin
- The nurse as witness to suffering / Kathleen Ouimet Perrin
- The role of healing and holistic nursing in palliation of suffering / Maureen Gaynor, Mary Kazanowski, and Mertie L. Potter
- Conveying comfort / Kathleen Ouimet Perrin
- Inspiring hope / Caryn A. Sheehan.