Published October, 2007
By Shaun Kinghorn and Sandra Gaines
Publisher: Elsevier (Bailliere Tindall)
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Helps in the process of defining palliative nursing and how it interfaces with other disciplines within the specialty. This work is divided into three sections and covers the aspects of palliative nursing. Key themes covered herein include pain control, symptom control, loss and grief, and handling loss.

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Published September, 2007
By Murna Downs, Neil Small, Katherine Froggatt and Katherine Dr. Froggatt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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This book describes what might be achieved if the values and best practice of both dementia care and palliative care are brought together.

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Published September, 2007
By David Oliviere and Barbara Monroe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Resilience is the capacity of people or social systems to achieve in the face of adversity. This book will help health and social care professionals understand and utilise the concept of resilience, in the context of palliative care.

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Published September, 2007
By Joanne Lynn, Janice Lynch Schuster, Anne Wilkinson, Lin Noyes Simon, Anne M. Wilkinson and Lin Simon
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Published September, 2007
By Jennifer Barraclough
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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A practical, evidence-based guide to complementary cancer therapies with an emphasis on enhancing practice; that is, using the therapies alongside conventional medicine, rather than as alternatives to it.

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Published August, 2007
By Joseph M. Helms
Publisher: Thieme (Thieme Publishing Group)
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Designed to take a physician with no acupuncture experience through the history and science of acupuncture, and lead him through the anatomy, physiology, pathology, and treatments possible in this new discipline.

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Published July, 2007
By Lynne Halamish and Doron Hermoni
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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The Weeping Willow illustrates, through clinial case vignettes, an extremely practical approach to dealing with grief. It is designed for the general reader as well as the student and the professional, for the comforter and learner as well as the griever.

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Published June, 2007
By Eduardo D. Bruera, Sheila Payne, Eduardo Bruera, Julia M Addington-Hall and Irene J Higginson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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The research base for palliative care must improve as it continues to develop in increasingly evidence-based health care systems, and to provide the needs of patients and families. This is the first research methods textbook focusing on the unique needs of palliative care, aimed at improving current research and stimulating new research in the field.

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Published May, 2007
By Jerry L. Old and Daniel L. Swagerty
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Contains the practical information health care professionals need to provide optimal end-of-life care. This book presents a multidimensional, holistic approach to assessment and management of the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of the patient and family.

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Published March, 2007
By Joanne Lynn, Ekta Chaudhry, Janice Lynch Schuster, Lin Noyes Simon, Anne M. Wilkinson and Lin Simon
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Provides a "how-to" introduction to quality improvement in palliative care. Each chapter in this work features a case study that illustrates how successful quality improvement teams work; and also includes ideas for change that most groups can put into practice.

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