Overview

This major new textbook in palliative care nursing draws together the principles and evidence that underpins practice to support nurses working in specialist palliative care settings and those whose work involves end-of-life care. Written by a team of experienced palliative care nurses, the book draws upon extensive expertise in palliative care research, education and scholarship. Using a novel organising framework - the trajectory of illness model - the book is structured around three main sections: Encountering illness Approaching death Experiencing loss and bereavement. Moving beyond an approach based on a traditional model of palliative care involving physical, psychological, social and spiritual aspects of care, this book takes a more holistic, person-centred approach with suggestions as to how nursing interventions may encompass a socially-embedded approach to care. The final section addresses professional issues in nursing and inter-professional working.

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Author:   Sheila Payne ,  Jane Seymour ,  Christine Ingleton
Publisher:   Open University Press
Imprint:   Open University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 19.30cm , Height: 4.90cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.820kg
ISBN:  

9780335214921

ISBN 10:   0335214924
Pages:   791
Publication Date:   01 March 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Section 1: Encountering illness. Overview. History, gender and culture in the rise of palliative care. What's in a name? A concept analysis of key terms in palliative care nursing. User involvement and palliative care: rhetoric or reality? Referral patterns and access into specialist palliative care. Acute hospital care. Transitions in status from wellness to illness, illness to wellness - coping with recurrence and remission. Communication, the patient and the palliative care team. Approaches to assessment in palliative care. Section 2: Transitions into the terminal phase. Overview. Good for the soul? The spiritual dimension of hospice and palliative care. Working with difficult symptoms. Pain: theories, evaluation and management. Balancing feelings and cognitions. Working with family caregivers in a palliative care setting. Supporting families of terminally ill persons. Social death - the impact of protracted dying. Ethical issues at the end of life. A very short introduction. The impact of socialisation on the dying process. No way in: including the excluded at the end of life. Palliative care in institutions. Section 3: Loss and bereavement. Overview. Nursing care at the time of death. Loss and bereavement. The care and support of bereaved people. Bereavement support: the perspective of community nurses. Risk assessment and bereavement services. Bereavement support services. Families and children facing loss and bereavement: childhood bereavement services - a diversity of models and practices. Section 4: Contemporary issues. Overview. Professional boundaries in palliative care. The cost of caring - surviving the culture of niceness, occupational stress and coping strategies. Specialist professional education in palliative care: how did we get here and where are we going? Information and communication technology in nursing - current role and future scope. Research and scholarship in palliative care nursing. Developing expert palliative care nursing through research and practice development. Policy, audit, evaluation and clinical governance. Leading and managing nurses in a changing environment. Conclusion.

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Sheila Payne leads the Palliative and End-of-Life Care Research Group at the University of Sheffield. She is series editor for the highly regarded series Health Psychology and her other books include Psychology for Nurses and the Caring Professions and Loss and Bereavement. Jane Seymour is a senior lecturer at the Palliative and End-of-Life Care Research Group at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses primarily on older people's knowledge, attitudes and experiences of end of life care. Christine Ingleton is Head of Department of the Community, Ageing, Rehabilitation, Education and Research (C.A.R.E.R.) at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests focus on evaluation of palliative care services and the provision and efficacy of palliative respite services.

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