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Nursing is an essential component of children's palliative care and palliative care is an essential aspect of nursing. Yet the complex inter disciplinary nature of palliative care brings into sharp focus the work nurses undertake with others in delivering palliative care. This is, however, a book by nurses for nurses.
Table des matières
Introduction and categorisation of children's palliative care needs and prevalence
Section 1: Public Health and Universal
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3. Public perceptions and participation in children's palliative care: promoting positive cultures of communication.
Section 2: Core
4. Delivery of unwanted news: diagnosis and assessment of needs.
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Section 3 Specialist
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Appendix A: Table of LO for CPCET UK and Ireland Education Standard Framework (including mapping to chapters)
Appendix B: GoPaPAS Standards
A propos de l'auteur
Duncan Randall has over 20 years' experience in delivering, researching and teaching children's palliative nursing. He has worked on projects such as the Spectrum of Children's Palliative Care, the Involve to Evolve database project, founding the first data group on children's palliative care in the UK. He has also worked extensively with the Children's Palliative Care Education and Training Action Group (CPCET) on the Standards for Education and the Standards for Advanced Care Planning. Duncan has an extensive publication history including his theoretical work using Pragmatics to set out a theory of children's nursing for children and their childhoods.
Susan Neilson has over 30 years' experience in children's palliative nursing care, research and teaching. She is a qualitative methodologist and supervises research students. Sue teaches across undergraduate and post-graduate programmes and also leads interprofessional palliative care workshops. She is Chair of the Royal College of Nursing Children's Palliative Care Community. Her work focuses on education, recently coordinating the Children's Palliative Care Education and Training Action Group and Young Person's Advance Care Plan Collaborative's work on the Education Standard Framework and Standard Framework for Advanced Care Planning.
Julia Downing has over 30 years' experience in palliative care, with more than 20 of those working in children's palliative care and internationally in Uganda, Africa, Eastern Europe and globally. She is an experienced palliative care nurse, advocate, educationalist and researcher. She is the Chief Executive of the International Children's Palliative Care Network (ICPCN) and has various visiting and honorary contracts at universities in Uganda, Serbia and the UK. She was part of the Children's Palliative Care Education and Training Action Group (CPCET), supporting the development of the Standards for Education and the Standards for Advanced Care Planning, as well as the Global Paediatric Standards. She has extensive experience in global palliative care, research and education, and is on the editorial boards of
eCancer,
APM and the
IJPN. She serves on the boards of several international organisations, is regularly invited to speak at conferences and has an extensive publication history on global palliative care and nursing.
Résumé
Nursing is an essential component of children’s palliative care and palliative care is an essential aspect of nursing. Yet the complex inter disciplinary nature of palliative care brings into sharp focus the work nurses undertake with others in delivering palliative care. This is, however, a book by nurses for nurses.
