| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
xiv, 353 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Psychosocial care. Hospice and palliative care -- Psychosocial needs, problems, and interventions : the individual -- Psychosocial needs, problems, and interventions : the family -- Spiritual care : needs, problems, and interventions -- Spiritual care : faiths -- Sociocultural care -- Grief and bereavement care -- Ethics -- Stress and health care providers -- Pain and symptom management. Pain : principles of management -- Pain : assessment -- Management of pain -- Neurologic symptoms -- Respiratory and cardiovascular problems -- Skin complications -- Oral problems --Gastrointestinal problems -- Genitourinary problems -- Dehydration, fatigue, and sleep -- Oncologic emergencies and paraneoplastic syndromes -- Imminent death : the last 48 hours -- Advanced cancer : metastatic spread, common symptoms, and assessment. Major organs (lung, pancreas, liver, brain) : metastatic spread, symptoms, and assessment -- Female reproductive cancer (breast, ovarian, uterine) : metastatic spread, common symptoms, and assessment -- Gastrointestinal cancer (colorectal, stomach, esophageal, and oral) : metastatic spread, common symptoms, and assessment -- Urinary tract cancer (kidney, bladder and prostate) : metastatic spread, common symptoms and assessment -- Blood/lymph and skin cancer : (non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, leukemia, multiple myeloma, melanoma) : metastatic spread, common symptoms and assessment -- Management of other terminal illnesses. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome -- Degenerative neurologic disorders : multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and myasthenia gravis -- Alzehimers disease -- End-stage cardiovascular and pulmonary disease. |
| Subject |
Terminal care.
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Nursing.
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| ISBN |
0781717728 (alk. paper) |
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