A Practical Guide to Palliative Care contains the practical information health care professionals need to provide optimal end-of-life care.

A Practical Guide to Palliataive Care presents a multidemensional, holistic approach to assessment and management of the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of the patient family.

Features:

• Multiple bullet points makes the text a useful study guide that presents information in a succinct manner
• Contains the most up-to-date thinking on end-of-life care
• Evidence-based approach
• Tested practical information that is used in the field
• Contians multiple easy-to-read tables covering such topics as pain medications, how to treat non-pain symptoms, determining who qualifies for hospice care and more
• Includes an "In a Nutshell" review in each chapter that contians the most important points on each topic

Contents

1. The Palliative Care Approach
2. Cultural Diversity in End-of-Life Care
3. Approach to the Patient
4. Predicting Life Expectancy
5. Delivery of Palliative Care
6. Terminal Care
7. Nonpain Symptom Management
8. Pain Control
9. Palliative Interventions
10. The Palliative Pediatric Patient
11. Charting
12. Ethics at the End of Life

Index

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