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Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Palliative medicine

Psychosocial Assessment in Terminal Care (Hardcover): Dennis Turk, David M. Dush, Barrie Cassileth Phd Psychosocial Assessment in Terminal Care (Hardcover)
Dennis Turk, David M. Dush, Barrie Cassileth Phd
R1,267 Discovery Miles 12 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Here is one of the few books that elucidates the wide range and complexity of special concerns intrinsic to the assessment of terminally ill patients and their families. Health care experts discuss psychosocial assessment and measurement and the ability of clinicians to accurately assess and track psychosocial functioning of patients and their families. Each chapter examine specific methodological considerations in terminal care. Several important content areas are discussed at length, including assessment of pain, assessment of distress in children, evaluation of cognitive functioning, and measurement of patient and family satisfaction.

Demenz und Palliative Geriatrie in der Praxis - Heilsame Betreuung unheilbar demenzkranker Menschen (German, Paperback, 3.... Demenz und Palliative Geriatrie in der Praxis - Heilsame Betreuung unheilbar demenzkranker Menschen (German, Paperback, 3. Aufl. 2022)
Marina Kojer, Martina Schmidl, Katharina Heimerl
R1,359 Discovery Miles 13 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Gute Lebensqualitat fur demenzkranke Hochbetagte Demenz ist unheilbar, die Diagnose besiegelt den Verlauf. Daher brauchen Demenzkranke bereits lange vor dem Tod palliative Betreuung. Gute Lebensqualitat fur Demenzkranke bedeutet vor allem menschliche Zuwendung. Die Kunst der mitfuhlenden Kommunikation, das "Beruhrbarsein", ist ein wesentlicher Teil der Symptomkontrolle. Erst durch eine lebendige Beziehung zu den Kranken und "einem Gefuhl" fur ihr Verhalten kann Hilfe wirksam, koennen "gute" Entscheidungen getroffen werden. Die Autorinnen und Autoren haben jahrzehntelange Erfahrung in der palliativen Betreuung demenzkranker Hochbetagter und geben ihr Know-how mit einem hohen Mass an Empathie und Wertschatzung weiter. Sie setzen sich dabei unter anderem mit Fragen der Kommunikation, der Symptomlinderung und mit ethischen Aspekten auseinander. Die dritte Auflage wurde aktualisiert und mit neuen Kapiteln zu aktuellen Themen erweitert, wie z. B. Beziehungsgestaltung und Demenz im Krankenhaus bzw. in der ambulanten Pflege. Inhalt: Kommunikation als geriatrische Symptomkontrolle Symptomkontrolle bei Schmerzen, Essstoerungen, Multimorbiditat und Gebrechlichkeit sowie in der letzten Lebensphase Menschenrechte Menschenbild und Haltung Ethik Angehoerige Demenzkranke Menschen in der ambulanten Pflege und im Krankenhaus

Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse (CHPN (R)) Exam Review - A Study Guide with Review Questions (Paperback): Patricia Moyle... Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse (CHPN (R)) Exam Review - A Study Guide with Review Questions (Paperback)
Patricia Moyle Wright
R2,230 Discovery Miles 22 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The first study guide for the CHPN (R) certification exam! This must-have study guide for nurses seeking to obtain Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse (CHPN (R)) status provides state-of-the-art information about all aspects of this specialty. It features 300 carefully selected Q&As that offer a detailed rationale for each question, along with tips and strategies to promote exam mastery and frequently asked questions about the exam. Additional questions are arranged in chapters mirroring the exam blueprint and the number of questions for each category correlates with the exam matrix. Case-based scenarios embodied within the questions facilitate the application of knowledge in a problem-solving format. A complete practice exam is included as well. Brief topical reviews address hospice and palliative care nursing practice in all of its dimensions, including physical, spiritual, and psychosocial. The resource highlights information that forms the basis of end-of-life care, such as communication and family-centered care. Additionally, high-level skills used by hospice and palliative care nurses, such as drug and dosage conversion and the use of infusion therapy, are covered as well. Key Features: Delivers the first study guide for hospice and palliative nurses seeking CHPN (R) certification Provides concise, up-to-date knowledge on all aspects of the specialty Includes information about the exam, answers to commonly asked questions, and tips and strategies for exam mastery Includes practice questions and answers following each chapter Provides a final comprehensive practice exam that offers 300 Q&As with detailed answer rationales that mirror the exam format Presents case-based scenarios within the questions that facilitate the application of knowledge

Hospice Ethics - Policy and Practice in Palliative Care (Paperback): Timothy W. Kirk, Bruce Jennings Hospice Ethics - Policy and Practice in Palliative Care (Paperback)
Timothy W. Kirk, Bruce Jennings
R1,962 Discovery Miles 19 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Hospice care is one of the fastest-growing segments of the U. S. healthcare system, a trend that is expected to accelerate as the median age of the population continues to rise over the next three decades. Despite over forty percent of the population now dying while on hospice care, very little has been published on the ethical opportunities and challenges experienced in the everyday lives of those giving and receiving hospice care. This book is the first comprehensive collection devoted to analyzing distinctive ethical issues arising in the delivery of hospice care and designed to promote best ethical practices for hospice care professionals and organizations. Thirteen newly commissioned chapters by seventeen hospice experts populate three thematic sections of the book, each devoted to an aspect of the intersection between ethics and hospice care. Contributors have unique qualifications and abilities to articulate and respond to ethically significant phenomena that - while not always unique to hospice care - arise in especially poignant and complex ways when caring for patients enrolled in hospice. As the shift or return to home-based care at the end of life continues, hospice professionals and programs will be faced with a broader array of terminal illnesses, cultural beliefs and traditions, and patient and family values than ever before. Hospice will no longer be tailored solely to the final stage of cancer, but will need to accommodate patients whose illnesses are variable in their progression and whose treatment plans include many medical options. The ethical orientations and frameworks that have served hospice for the past 50 years will need to be supplemented and refined if hospice is to fulfill this changing social mission. Hospice Ethics explores a new paradigm for hospice ethics from a multi-disciplinary and provides an important educational resource for professional training in end of life care.

Palliative Care - A Case-based Guide (Paperback, Edition.): Jane E. Loitman, Christian T. Sinclair, Michael J. Fisch Palliative Care - A Case-based Guide (Paperback, Edition.)
Jane E. Loitman, Christian T. Sinclair, Michael J. Fisch
R2,886 Discovery Miles 28 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A clinical case-based handbook has a role in general clinicians' practice of caring for patients with serious or life-limiting illness. The explosion of the field of Hospice and Palliative Medicine impacts all physicians and healthcare providers. Fellowship trained s- cialists graduate in greater numbers annually. These and more seasoned specialists are now certified by the American Board of Medical Specialties as subspecialists. Research in this field is expanding in scope and quantity, and peer reviewed journals devoted to this work are multiplying. Moreover, peer reviewed journals in primary care and other subspecialties of medicine regularly include papers that focus on end-of-life care, quality of life issues, and symptom management. Overall then, access to clinical information necessary to care for patients with life-limiting illness is not only essential, but also increasingly available. This case-based clinical book aims to help with the actual practice of caring for patients with life-limiting illness. Numerous texts and journals exist to provide the data to inform care, yet there remains a need to find practical points and information about the practical application of the principles of palliative care. Thus, we hope that the cases, key points, and practical tips will help health care providers who are not experts already in palliative care in the care of patients with serious illness and challenging problems. Some chapters follow one patient through the course of an illness to highlight the applicability of palliative care throughout the disease process.

The Case of Terri Schiavo - Ethics, Politics, and Death in the 21st Century (Hardcover): Kenneth Goodman The Case of Terri Schiavo - Ethics, Politics, and Death in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
Kenneth Goodman
R2,165 Discovery Miles 21 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The case of Terri Schiavo, a young woman who spent 15 years in a persistent vegetative state, has emerged as a watershed in debates over end-of-life care. While many observers had thought the right to refuse medical treatment was well established, this case split a family, divided a nation, and counfounded physicians, legislators, and many of the people they treated or represented. In renewing debates over the importance of advance directives, the appropriate role of artificial hydration and nutrition, and the responsibilities of family members, the case also became one of history's most extensively litigated health care disputes. The Case of Terri Schiavo assembles a team of first-hand participants and content experts to provide thoughtful and nuanced analyses. In addition to a comprehensive overview, the book includes contributions by Ms. Schiavo's guardian ad litem, a neurologist and lawyer who participated in the case, and scholars who examine issues related to litigation, faith, gender, and disability. The volume also includes a powerful dissent from the views of many scholars in the bioethics community. The book is intended for students, health care professionals, policy makers, and other in search of carefully reasoned analyses of the case that will shape our view of death and end-of-life medical care for decades.

Journeys into Palliative Care - Roots and Reflections (Paperback): Louis Heyse-Moore Journeys into Palliative Care - Roots and Reflections (Paperback)
Louis Heyse-Moore; Edited by Christina Mason; Contributions by Gillie Bolton
R792 Discovery Miles 7 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A collection of accounts exploring the personal and professional experiences of palliative care workers. The contributors, who are based at hospices such as St Joseph's in Hackney, demonstrate the positive impact of reflective practice for families and individuals who have experienced or are experiencing bereavement. They explain how and why they came to work in palliative care and what they bring to the work - as well as the ways in which the work has enriched their own lives Including descriptive examples of their own work with clients and families they discuss: how to deal with your own emotions as well as those of the client; moral dilemmas you may come up against in your work; managing denial in patients and carers; general ethical questions in cancer and palliative care work; and the use of narrative and story-telling in care work.

Substance Abuse Treatment and the Stages of Change - Selecting and Planning Interventions (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Gerard J.... Substance Abuse Treatment and the Stages of Change - Selecting and Planning Interventions (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Gerard J. Connors, Carlo C. DiClemente, Mary Marden Velasquez, Dennis M. Donovan
R2,306 Discovery Miles 23 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A widely adopted practitioner resource and course text, this book shows how to apply knowledge about behavior change in general -- and the stages-of-change model in particular -- to make substance abuse treatment more effective. The authors are leaders in the field who describe ways to tailor interventions for clients with varying levels of motivation or readiness to change. They draw on cutting-edge theory and research on the transtheoretical model to explain what works (and what doesn't work) at different stages of change. Rich clinical examples illustrate the "whats," "whys," and "how-tos" of using the stages-of-change model to inform treatment planning and intervention for individuals, groups, couples, and families. New to This Edition *Reflects the ongoing development of the stages-of-change model and research advances over the past decade. *Chapter on stage-based brief interventions in health care, social service, and community settings. *Group treatment chapter has been significantly revised. *Expanded coverage of the change processes relevant to each stage. See also Group Treatment for Substance Abuse, Second Edition, by Mary Marden Velasquez et al., a manual for a group-based approach grounded in the transtheoretical model.

Palliative Viszeralchirurgie - Chirurgisches Und Perioperatives Management (German, Hardcover, 1. Aufl. 2019 ed.): Michael... Palliative Viszeralchirurgie - Chirurgisches Und Perioperatives Management (German, Hardcover, 1. Aufl. 2019 ed.)
Michael Ghadimi, Kia Homayounfar, Joerg C Kalff
R2,236 R1,849 Discovery Miles 18 490 Save R387 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Behandlung von Patienten mit inkurablen Tumorerkrankungen im multiprofessionellen Team Kriterien fur individuelle, patientenorientierte Therapieentscheidungen Symptom- und organbezogene Empfehlungen zum operativen und interventionellen Vorgehen

Religious Understandings of a Good Death in Hospice Palliative Care (Hardcover): Harold Coward, Kelli I Stajduhar Religious Understandings of a Good Death in Hospice Palliative Care (Hardcover)
Harold Coward, Kelli I Stajduhar
R1,923 Discovery Miles 19 230 Out of stock

In the 1960s, English physician and committed Christian Cicely Saunders introduced a new way of treating the terminally ill that she called hospice care. Emphasizing a holistic and compassionate approach, her model led to the rapid growth of a worldwide hospice movement. Aspects of the early hospice model that stressed attention to the religious dimensions of death and dying, while still recognized and practiced, have developed outside the purview of academic inquiry and consideration. Meanwhile, global migration and multicultural diversification in the West have dramatically altered the profile of contemporary hospice care. In response to these developments, this volume is the first to critically explore how religious understandings of death are manifested and experienced in palliative care settings.
Contributors discuss how a good death is conceived within the major religious traditions of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Chinese religion, and Aboriginal spirituality. A variety of real-world examples are presented in case studies of a Buddhist hospice center in Thailand, Ugandan approaches to dying with HIV/AIDS, Punjabi extended-family hospice care, and pediatric palliative care. The work sheds new light on the significance of religious belief and practice at the end of life, at the many forms religious understanding can take, and at the spiritual pain that so often accompanies the physical pain of the dying person."

Palliative Medicine - A case-based manual (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition): Doreen Oneschuk, Neil Hagen, Neil MacDonald Palliative Medicine - A case-based manual (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
Doreen Oneschuk, Neil Hagen, Neil MacDonald
R1,403 Discovery Miles 14 030 Out of stock

Palliative care is now an integral part of the undergraduate medical curriculum. Medical education across the board is adopting a case-based approach. This book uses a series of cases to illustrate critical points in palliative medicine. The case-studies have been carefully chosen to reflect real life clinical practice. The contributors illustrate, through the case studies, the desired skills, attitudes, and knowledge required in this field of medicine. Since publication of the second edition, many approaches to palliative care have been further refined and developed. Ongoing research has led to the improved use of existing medications, and the development of several new treatments. More is known about the psychosocial existential distress experienced by patients and their families resulting in an improved understanding by health care providers of how best to approach and assist those affected by advanced illness, and more is known about methadone and other medications with emerging uses. The third edition of this highly popular book continues to offer a panoramic view of palliative care. It introduces a number of new topics including Neurological Disorders, The Last Days, and Palliative Sedation.

Cicely Saunders - Founder of the Hospice Movement - Selected Letters 1959-1999 (Hardcover): Dame Cicely Saunders Cicely Saunders - Founder of the Hospice Movement - Selected Letters 1959-1999 (Hardcover)
Dame Cicely Saunders
R1,636 Discovery Miles 16 360 Out of stock

Cicely Saunders is universally acclaimed as a pioneer of modern hospice care. Trained initially in nursing and social work, she qualified in medicine in 1958 and subsequently dedicated the whole of her professional life to improving the care of dying and bereaved people. Founding St Christopher's Hospice in London in 1967, she encouraged a radical new approach to end of life care combining attention to physical, social, emotional and spiritual problems, brilliantly captured in her concept of 'total pain'. Her ideas about clinical care, education and research have been hugely influential, leading to numerous prizes and awards in recognition of her humanitarian achievements. In this book the sociologist and historian David Clark presents a selection of her vast correspondence, together with his own commentary. The letters of Cicely Saunders tell a remarkable story of vision, determination and creativity. They should be read by anyone interested in how we die in the modern world.

David Clark is Professor of Medical Sociology at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. He is the author and editor of many books and papers and has written widely on sociological aspects of religion, family life and end of life care. His more recent interests include the history of hospice, palliative care and pain medicine; policy issues in the international development of palliative care; and related ethical questions. He is currently writing a major work on the global history of hospice and palliative care.

Musiktherapie in Der Palliativ- Und Hospiz-Arbeit - 21. Musiktherapietagung Am Freien Musikzentrum Munchen E. V. (2. Bis 3.... Musiktherapie in Der Palliativ- Und Hospiz-Arbeit - 21. Musiktherapietagung Am Freien Musikzentrum Munchen E. V. (2. Bis 3. Marz 2013) (German, Paperback)
Margrit Schenk, Richard Lohr
R799 Discovery Miles 7 990 Out of stock

English summary: A hospital team of nurses, doctors and therapists are working together to provide the best possible care for the terminally ill patients whose progressive, late-stage illnesses are no longer susceptible to curative treatment. The aim of palliative medicine is to preserve qualitiy of living through optimised pain management and control of symptoms. Hospices allow patients to die in dignity. Both institutions allow for the, often processual, use of music and music therapy to support and comfort patients.This volume demonstrates current research approaches and gives and overview of support through music therapy in both areas. The theme of dying and grieving is approached through texts about inner and outer attitudes, mindfulness and the supportive use of music as well as the wholesome atmosphere created with its help in listening to and empathising with terminally ill patients. German description: Ein Krankenhausteam von Pflegern, Arzten und Therapeuten sind um die bestmogliche Versorgung der schwerstkranken Patienten bemuht, die mit progredienten, weit fortgeschrittenen Erkrankungen nicht mehr auf eine kurative Behandlung ansprechen. Ziel der Palliativmedizin ist der Erhalt der Lebensqualitat durch optimale Schmerztherapie und Symptomkontrolle. Die Hospize ermoglichen ein Sterben in Wurde, in beiden Institutionen ist der begleitende und trostende, oft prozesshafte Einsatz mit Musik und Musiktherapie moglich.Der vorliegende Band zeigt aktuelle Forschungsansatze und gibt einen Uberblick uber musiktherapeutische Begleitungen in beiden Bereichen. Wir nahern uns der Thematik des Sterbens und Trauerns durch Beitrage uber innere und aussere Haltungen, Achtsamkeit und den unterstutzenden Einsatz von Musik sowie die daraus entstehende heilsame Atmosphare beim Zuhoren und Einfuhlen in die Lebenssituation Schwerstkranker an.

Textbook of Palliative Care (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Roderick Duncan MacLeod, Lieve van den Block Textbook of Palliative Care (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Roderick Duncan MacLeod, Lieve van den Block
R18,470 Discovery Miles 184 700 Out of stock

Textbook of Palliative Care is a comprehensive, clinically relevant and state-of-the art book, aimed at advancing palliative care as a science, a clinical practice and as an art. Palliative care has been part of healthcare for over fifty years but we still find ourselves having to explain its nature and practice to colleagues and to the public in general. Healthcare education and training has been slow to recognize the vital importance of ensuring that all practitioners have a good understanding of what is involved in the care of people with serious or advanced illnesses and their families. However, the science of palliative care is advancing and our understanding concerning many aspects of palliative care is developing rapidly. The book is divided into separate sections for ease of use. Over 100 chapters written by experts in their given fields provide up-to-date information on a wide range of topics of relevance to those providing care towards the end of life no matter what the disease may be. We present a global perspective on contemporary and classic issues in palliative care with authors from a wide range of disciplines involved in this essential aspect of care. The Textbook includes sections addressing aspects such as symptom management and care provision, organization of care in different settings, care in specific disease groups, palliative care emergencies, ethics, public health approaches and research in palliative care. This Textbook will be of value to practitioners in all disciplines and professions where the care of people approaching death is important, specialists as well as non-specialists, in any setting where people with serious advanced illnesses are residing. It is also an important resource for researchers, policy-and decision-makers at national or regional levels. Neither the science nor the art of palliative care will stand still so we aim to keep this Textbook updated as the authors find new evidence and approaches to care.

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