Palliative Care Nursing: Quality Care to the End of Life, 2nd Edition
Author: Deborah Witt Sherman ANP BC FAAN
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Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award
The second edition of this award-winning text provides the essential guide to achieving best practices in palliative care nursing. It offers a blend of holistic, spiritual, cultural, and humanistic caring coupled with aggressive management of pain and symptoms associated with advanced disease. With over 20 percent of the book covering pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic pain management, and with a focus on both clinical and holistic treatment, major figures in the field of palliative care nursing outline eleven specific skill competencies in this specialty.
Used as a resource in the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Cancer Institute, which has successfully trained thousands of nurse educators, and organized around the competencies in palliative care nursing developed by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, this book is an essential resource for both students and practitioners.
New to the 2nd Edition:
• Updated information in each chapter
• New chapter on professional organizations and certification in palliative care nursing
Doody Review Services
Reviewer: Lisa Stepp, PhD, RN, APN, AOCN, CRNH (Private Practice)
Description: Although palliative care and hospice have been an important part of medical service now for many years, clinician education in this area remains relatively new. Numerous nursing and physician education programs have started to integrate palliative care into their curriculum and appropriate texts are necessary to support this process.
Purpose: Clinicians are unable to provide services for which they have not received appropriate instruction. This book proposes to provide such instruction for students and established clinicians in palliative and end-of-life care. All contributing authors to this book are experienced in the area of palliative care and well respected in the field. The wealth of knowledge they bring to the topic is unsurpassed.
Audience: This book is most appropriate for nursing students, but clinicians just starting in palliative care as well as social workers and chaplains can benefit. The terminology is somewhat technical and will require some basic knowledge of nursing and science. Excellence in quality nursing care can only be achieved through appropriate education and direction. This book provides a framework that facilitates such quality care.
Features: This book provides the most essential information regarding end-of-life care and is orgainzed around 15 core competencies. With an understanding of the holisitic approach of palliative care, the reader is exposed to a comprehensive curriculum to guide their practice and success.
Assessment: Although there have been many books written regarding nursing care at the end of life, this book provides new information regarding appropriate curriculum development and implementation. Overall, the book is most appropriate for educators and use as a class textbook.
Rating
3 Stars from Doody
Table of Contents:
List of Education Plans for Achieving Competencies
Contributors
Foreword, Betty Rolling Ferrell
Preface, Deborah Witt Sherman and Marianne LaPorte Matzo
Section I: Looking at the Whole Person in Palliative Care
• Spirituality and Culture as Domains of Quality Palliative Care, Deborah Witt Sherman
• Holistic Integrative Therapies in Palliative Care, Carla Mariano
Section II: Social and Professional Issues in Palliative Care
• Death and Society, Marilyn Bookbinder, Margaret Kiss, and Marianne LaPorte Matzo
• Professional Organizations and Certifications in Hospice and Palliative Care, Judy Lentz & Deborah Witt Sherman
• The Nurse's Role as a Member of the Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Team, Lisa M. Krammer, Jeanne Martinez, Eileen A. Ring, Mary Beth Williams, and Mary Jo Jacobs
• Ethical Aspects of Palliative Care, Judith Kennedy Schwarz
• Legal Aspects of End-of-Life Care, Marianne LaPorte Matzo and Gloria C. Ramsey
Section III: Psychosocial Considerations
• Communicating with Seriously Ill and Dying Patients, Their Families, and Their Health Care Providers, Kathleen O. Perrin
• Caring for Families: The Other Patient in Palliative Care, Suzanne K. Goetschius and Marianne LaPorte Matzo
• Loss, Suffering, Bereavement, and Grief, Mertie L. Potter
Section IV: Physical Aspects of Dying
• Symptom Management in Palliative Care, Mary K. Kazanowski
• Pain Assessment and PharmacologicalInterventions, Nessa Coyle and Mary Layman-Goldstein
• NonDrug Pain Interventions, Mary Layman-Goldstein and Nessa Coyle
• Peri-Death Nursing Care, Marianne LaPorte Matzo
Index
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