Textbook of Palliative nursing (Edinburgh ; New York : Churchill Livingstone, 2006)
Strategic and global issues in palliative care / Elizabeth Travers and David Mitchell -- Managing symptoms: what can nurses do?: a principle-based approach / Alison Connor and Michelle Muir -- Pain control / Keith Farrer -- Promoting comfort through radiotherapy, chemotherapy and surgery / Phillipa Green and James Youll -- Making sense of spiritual care / David Mitchell and Tom Gordon -- Psychosocial dimensions / Robert Becker -- Communication in advanced illness: challenges and opportunities / Shaun Kinghorn, Sandra Gaines, and Gill Satterley -- Facilitating hope in palliative care / Rosemary McIntyre and Jackie Chaplin -- Supporting the family facing loss and grief / Janet Brown and Graham Farley -- Evidence-based palliative care / Shaun Kinghorn, Kevin Donaghy, and Jacqueline Howard -- Choice at the end of life: ethics and palliative care / Simon Chippendale -- The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) for the dying patient / Anita Roberts and Maureen Gambles -- Sexuality in palliative care: the problems and prospects / Valarie Forster -- Complementary therapies / Pippa Lovell ... [et al.] -- The changing face of nursing in palliative care / Audrey Rowe -- Looking after yourself / Fiona Setch.
Prev. ed: Palliative nursing: bringing comfort and hope / edited by Shaun Kinghorn, Richard Gamlin. 2001.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Palliative treatment; Terminal care; Nursing; Nursing Care -- psychology; Palliative Care -- psychology; Empathy; Nurse-Patient Relations; Terminal Care -- psychology