Pediatric Palliative Care

Zusatztext This book provides an overview of pediatric hospice and palliative care, followed by chapters on symptom control and pain. Possibly more important in the pediatric setting, there are chapters on palliative care in the neonatal ICU, transitioning of the goals of care toward palliation, and management of the grief and bereavement that invariably follow. s Informationen zum Autor Betty R. Ferrell is the Director and Professor of Nursing Research and Education at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center in Duarte, California. Klappentext Pediatric Palliative Care, the fourth volume in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series, addresses pediatric hospice, symptom management, pediatric pain, the neonatal intensive care unit, transitioning goals of care between the emergency department and intensive care unit, and grief and bereavement in pediatric palliative care. Zusammenfassung Pediatric Palliative Care, the fourth volume in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series, addresses pediatric hospice, symptom management, pediatric pain, the neonatal intensive care unit, transitioning goals of care between the emergency department and intensive care unit, and grief and bereavement in pediatric palliative care. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care 2. Symptom Management in Pediatric Palliative Care 3. Pediatric Pain: Knowing the Child Before You 4. Palliative Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit 5. Pediatric Care: Transitioning Goals of Care in the Emergency Department, Intensive Care Unit, and In Between 6. Grief and Bereavement in Pediatric Palliative Care

Summary

Pediatric Palliative Care, the fourth volume in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series, addresses pediatric hospice, symptom management, pediatric pain, the neonatal intensive care unit, transitioning goals of care between the emergency department and intensive care unit, and grief and bereavement in pediatric palliative care.

Product details

• Authors: Betty Ferrell, Betty R. Ferrell, Betty R. (Director and Professor Ferrell, Hospice and Palliative Nurses Assoc
• Assisted by: Betty R Ferrell (Editor), Betty R Ed. Ferrell (Editor), Betty R. Ferrell (Editor), Betty R. Ed Ferrell (Editor), Ferrell Betty R. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2015
• EAN: 9780190244187
• ISBN: 978-0-19-024418-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals; Hpna Palliative Nursing Manual
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Pediatrics, MEDICAL / Terminal Care, Terminal care nursing, Paediatric medicine, Palliative Medicine, MEDICAL / Pain Management, Paediatric medicine / child and adolescent medicine