Palliative and End of Life Care, An Issue of Nursing Clinics

This issue of Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Mimi Mahon, features subject topics such as: Understanding Children's Involvment in Medical Decision Making; Symptom Management at End of Life; Assessing respiratory distress when the patient can't self-report; Barriers to Palliative Care, Legislative Issues; End Stage Liver Disease: Symptoms & Practice Implications; Dying children: Creating opportunities out of a "Last Chance”; Decision making in palliative care; Discussing a family member's serious illness: children's and families' perspectives; Living with cognitive impairments in Long Term Care: Palliative Care & End of Life implications; Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Therapy; The patient and family perspectives: Living with cancer; Palliative care concepts in the sickle cell population.

Product details

• Authors: Mimi Mahon, Mahon Mimi
• Publisher: Elsevier Health Science
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2010
• EAN: 9781437718423
• ISBN: 978-1-4377-1842-3
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 15 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 510 g
• Series: The Clinics: Nursing
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Terminal Care, Terminal care nursing