Palliative care : core skills and clinical competencies
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Linda L Emanuel; S Lawrence Librach
- ناشر : Philadelphia, PA : Saunders/Elsevier
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2007
- شابک / ISBN : 9781416025979
Description
Palliative care: a quiet revolution in patient care -- Suffering: the hundred little deaths before dying -- Comprehensive assessment -- Communication skills -- Negotiating goals of care: changing goals along the trajectory of illness -- Multiple symptoms and multiple illnesses -- Pain -- Nausea/vomiting, anorexia/cachexia, and fatigue -- Depression, anxiety, and delirium -- Constipation -- Urinary incontinence -- Sexuality -- Dyspnea -- Loss, bereavement, and adaptation -- Understanding and respecting cultural differences -- Advance care planning -- Responding to requests for euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide -- Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining therapies -- Last hours of living -- Legal and ethical issues in the United States -- Hematology/oncology -- HIV/AIDS -- Heart disease -- Kidney failure -- Gastrointestinal malignancies -- Neurodegenerative diseases -- Principles of palliative surgery -- Chronic diseases and geriatrics -- Pulmonary palliative medicine -- Pediatric palliative care -- Palliative care in the intensive care unit -- Emergency medicine and palliative care -- The interdisciplinary team -- Palliative care nursing -- Social workers: the connective tissue of the health care system -- Spiritual care -- Palliative care in long-term care settings -- Integrating palliative care into disease management -- Palliative care services and programs -- The economic burden of end-of-life illness -- Palliative care in developing countries -- App. I: Formulary: medication tables -- App. II: Coding for physician services related to palliative care -- App. III: Resources for palliative and end-of-life care.
Provides you with the core knowledge and skills necessary to provide comprehensive and compassionate care. From diagnosis to bereavement care, this work addresses the major clinical, physical, psychological, and spiritual management issues encountered in palliative care in a user-friendly, ready-reference format.
