Palliative care nursing : caring for suffering patients
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Sudbury, Massachusetts :
Jones & Bartlett Learning ,
c2012
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The nature of suffering and palliative care
- 2. Suffering in special populations
- 3. Grieving and suffering
- 4. Ethical responsibilities and issues in palliative care
- 5. Suffering and palliative care at the end of life
- 6. Acute and chronic pain as sources of suffering
- 7. Spirituality and suffering
- 8. The search for meaning in suffering
- 9. The nurse as witness to suffering
- 10. The role of healing and holistic nursing in palliation of suffering
- 11. Conveying comfort
- 12. Inspiring hope