Overview
Presenting a supportive approach to the key themes of palliative care nursing, this title contains important material of a wide range of initiatives that are impacting on end of life care across the UK.
Full Product Details
Author: Robert Becker
Publisher: Mark Allen Group
Imprint: Quay Books,a division of Mark Allen Publishing Ltd
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Weight: 0.644kg
ISBN: 9781856423946
ISBN 10: 1856423948
Pages: 354
Publication Date: 01 October 2009
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Excellent book. Very clearly defined with good reference to evidence base and gives very helpful case studies and reflective exercises for future practice ... Would recommend as an essential insight for gold standard palliative care ... Excellent scope of content. Appears to cover all angles. - Denise Douglas, Lecturer in Palliative Care, Saint Francis Hospice. This book is a thoughtful and thought provoking text and will be a useful addition to the library of anyone teaching or taking palliative care courses or placements in end-of-life care settings - Dion Smyth, Lecturer-practitioner in Cancer and Palliative Care, Birmingham City University, in The International Journal of Palliative Nursing 2010, Vol 16, No 8. This course is run by Nairobi Hospice as a franchise from Oxford Brookes University ... This donation is highly valued by the staff who run the course and by the students. - Dave Roberts, Senior Lecturer in Cancer & Palliative Care, Oxford Brookes University. Robert Becker is an experienced educator in palliative care nursing. His wealth of experience shows in the preparation of the second edition of this well-respected textbook. It is aimed at a specific market - British nursing students. The way information is presented in easily 'predigested' chunks can be seen either as helpful to busy students or as contributing to a trend that does not encourage scholarly skills... There is a good section dealing with 'life closure skills'. It was good to see emphasis placed on the multicultural needs for end of life care. The author acknowledges diversity and how hard it is to 'get things right'. This book will be a useful purchase for nursing students, but I hope that nurse teachers will encourage students to take a critical stance on some of the claims it makes.' - Sheila Payne, director, International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University, Cancer Nursing Practice, April 2011, Volume 10, Number 3
