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Main description:
This handbook provides an easily navigable source of information about the day-to-day management of patients requiring palliative and hospice care. Succinct, evidence-based, topically focused content is supplemented by extensive tables and algorithms. The table of contents and balance of coverage follows the core curriculum of the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, thus meeting the educational and clinical information needs of students, residents, fellows, and
nurse practitioners. An expert team of clinicians, led by world renowned Eduardo Bruera, address approach to care; psychosocial and spiritual issues; impending death; grief and bereavement; assessment and management of pain; management of non-pain symptoms such as nausea, dyspnea, depression, insomnia,
and bleeding; communication and team work; and ethical and legal decision making.
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP USA)
Publication date: September, 2011
Pages: 504
Weight: 240g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Nursing, Palliative Medicine
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I feel that the overall approach allows diverse topics to be presented in different ways that will engage a variety of readers with dissimilar needs, such as the luxury of time to reflect or the more immediate need for urgent clinical data delivered quickly. This handbook provides an easily navigable source of information about the day-to-day management of patients requiring palliative and hospice care. Succinct, evidence-based, topically focused content is supplemented by extensive tables and algorithms.This is and ideal resource and reference for residents, healthcre professionals, and nurse practitioners managing patients who access hospice end-of-life care.