Palliative Care Nursing Caring for Suffering Patients

Name: Palliative Care Nursing Caring for Suffering Patients
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ISBN: 9780763773847

ISBN-10: 0763773840

ISBN-13: 9780763773847

Edition: 2012 (Revised)

Authors: Mertie L. Potter, Caryn A. Sheehan, Mary K. Kazanowski, Kathleen Ouimet Perrin, Kathleen Ouimet Perrin

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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 suffering. Further, Palliative Care Nursing discusses ways nurses as witnesses to suffering can optimize their own coping skills and facilitate personal growth. The text describes nursing interventions to assist those who are suffering, explores spiritual and ethical perspectives on suffering, outlines grief models and how to communicate with individuals who are grieving or suffering, and explore how…

Book details

List price: $106.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC
Publication date: 1/20/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 362
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.13" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 1.320



Preface


Acknowledgments


About the Authors



The Nature of Suffering and Palliative Care




Suffering in Special Populations




Grieving and Suffering




Ethical Responsibilities and Issues in Palliative Care




Suffering and Palliative Care at the End of Life




Acute and Chronic Pain as Sources of Suffering




Spirituality and Suffering




The Search for Meaning in Suffering




The Nurse as Witness to Suffering




The Role of Healing and Holistic Nursing in Palliation of Suffering




Conveying Comfort




Inspiring Hope



Index