Service learning is a reciprocal partnership that bridges the gap between professional education and society. It is a powerful teaching/learning strategy that helps students learn while helping communities to help themselves. This groundbreaking book: emphasizes the importance of service learning to nursing education provides an introduction to the principles and concepts of service learning presents effective service learning activities currently employed in nursing curricula

Taking a multidisciplinary approach, End of Life Nursing Care flows smoothly from historical perspectives to caring for the caregiver; and includes theories, holistic models, the grief process and responses to loss, ethical and legal considerations, patient centered care, communication, management of specific terminal illnesses, and issues across the lifespan. The text covers the encircling meaningful parameters of history, sociology, psychology, pathophysiology, philosophy, and the law.