What can nurses do to support those receiving palliative care? How
do you ensure clear communication and maintain patients' and
families' preferences? Palliative Care Nursing is essential reading
for nursing students, professional nurses and other health and
social care professionals providing supportive and palliative care
to those with advanced illness or who are towards the end of life.
This third edition of the acclaimed textbook has been extensively
revised and examines important research studies, key debates around
care and strategies to advance palliative care nursing. In four
sections, the book covers key elements of nursing practice towards
the end of life: * Defining the palliative care patient * Providing
palliative nursing care * Caring around the time of death *
Challenging issues in palliative care nursing Leading authors
address contemporary issues and explore how to provide high quality
person-centred palliative care, encouraging application to practice
through exercises and case studies. Chapters completely reworked or
new for this edition include those on communication, living with
uncertainty, bereavement care, the costs of caring, nurses'
decision-making and capacity, and palliative care worldwide. The
clarity of evidence presented and coverage of a diverse range of
topics make this the foundational textbook for all studying
palliative care at pre-registration level, postgraduate level or as
part of CPD study. With a foreword by last edition editor,
Professor Sheila Payne, Lancaster University, UK. 'I welcome this
third edition of Palliative Care Nursing and congratulations to the
new team who have provided us with a dynamic and innovative
development of a core text for palliative nursing practice. As the
largest workforce in palliative care, and given the changing face
of clinical practice for nurses, including increased educational
opportunity and expanding roles and responsibilities, this book is
timely in its focus on critical issues which frame and scope the
reality of palliative care and the nursing contribution to that
discipline. The learning exercises, in particular, offer tools for
educators and clinicians to reflect on practice and understand new
ways of knowing in palliative care. It will be an excellent
resource for nursing, both in the UK and Ireland and to the wider
international audience, having drawn on the breadth of global
nursing expertise to bring this book together'. Philip Larkin,
Professor of Clinical Nursing (Palliative Care), University College
Dublin and Our Lady's Hospice and Care Services, Dublin, Ireland;
President, European Association for Palliative Care 'This is a book
of substance that captures the current status of palliative
nursing, including the values and research evidence that underpin
it. The changing nature of palliative nursing as an evidence-based
specialism is balanced with practical skills and insights from
experts, and also considers the needs of those working with, or
concerned about, the dying person's well-being. It covers a range
of challenging issues as well as drawing on the wisdom of those who
actually undertake this work on a daily basis. I hope that students
and practitioners from all disciplines will find this a useful
resource to understand the art and craft of good palliative
nursing'. Professor Daniel Kelly, Fellow of the Royal College of
Nursing and Royal College of Nursing Chair of Nursing Research,
Cardiff University, UK
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