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Palliative care as only a nurse can teach it

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In this highly useful book, Campbell shared with you everything you must know about providing the best possible care to end-of-life patients and their families.

Vignettes, clinical pearls, and nursing alerts help you to understand:

• The nurse's role in providing care to dying patients
• Special approaches to talking with patients and their families
• Patient and family needs
• Withdrawal of life-sustaining devices
• Nurse's grief

• Contents

• Preface

• Acknowledgments

• List of Acronyms

• Chapter 1 Nurse’s Role in Providing Care to Dying Patients

• Chapter 2 Patient Prognosis

• Chapter 3 Patient and Family Needs: Emphasis on Communication

• Chapter 4 Care of the Patient Before and After Death

• Chapter 5 Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Devices and Interventions

• Chapter 6 Anticipatory, Acute, and Nurses’ Grief

• Appendices

• Index
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• R
• S
• T
• V
• W
• X