Palliative and End-of-Life Care

Palliative and End-of-Life Care, 2nd Edition provides clinicians with the guidelines and tools necessary to provide quality, evidenced-based care to patients with life-limiting illness. This text describes the care and management of patients with advanced disease throughout the disease trajectory, extending from diagnosis of advanced disease until death. Four units provide the general principles of palliative and end-of-life care, important concepts, advanced disease management, and clinical practice guidelines. Clinical practice guidelines offer in-depth discussions of the pathophysiology of 19 different symptoms, interventions for specific symptom management (including in-depth rationales), and suggestions for patient and family teaching.

• Defines dying as a normal, healthy process aided by the support of an interdisciplinary team.
• Provides in-depth pathophysiology, assessment, and intervention information based upon the disease trajectory.
• Highlights opportunities for patient and family teaching.
• Describes psychosocial issues experienced by patients and their families.
• Reviews uncomplicated and complicated grief and mourning, providing suggestions to help the family after a patient's death.

• Includes case studies at the end of chapters to reinforce key concepts of compassionate care.

• New chapters including Advance Care Planning, Ethical Issues, Spiritual Care Across Cultures, Pharmacology, Sleep, and Nutrition.

• Includes a new appendix on Assessment Tools and Resources for more comprehensive coverage of palliative and end-of-life care.

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  Providing clinicians with the guidelines and tools necessary to provide quality, evidenced-based care to patients with life-limiting illness, this text describes the care and management of patients with advanced disease throughout the disease trajectory.

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  General Principles in Palliative and End-of-Life Care 1. The Advanced Practice Nurse in Palliative Care 2. Palliative and End-of-Life Care 3. The Dying Process Important Concepts in Palliative and End-of-Life Care 4. Advance Care Planning and End-of-Life Decision Making 5. Ethical Issues Surrounding Advanced Disease 6. Spiritual Care Across Cultures 7. Pharmacology 8. Sleep 9. Nutrition Advanced Disease Management 10. Cardiovascular Disease 11. Pulmonary Disease 12. Hepatic Disease 13. Chronic Kidney Disease 14. Neurological Disease 15. Malignancies 16. HIV/AIDS Clinical Practice Guidelines 17. Anxiety 18. Ascites 19. Bowel Obstruction 20. Cachexia and Anorexia 21. Constipation 22. Cough 23. Dehydration 24. Delirium/Acute Confusion 25. Depression 26. Diarrhea 27. Dyspnea 28. Fatigue 29. Hiccups 30. Lymphedema 31. Nausea and Vomiting 32. Pain 33. Palliative Care Emergencies 34. Pruritis 35. Ulcerative Lesions Appendices 36. Caregiver Resources 37. Assessment Tools