
Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing
Constance Dahlin, Patrick Coyne, and Betty Ferrell (eds)
Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing is the first text devoted to advanced practice nursing care of seriously ill and dying patients and their families. This comprehensive work ...
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Advancing the Science of Implementation across the Cancer Continuum
David A. Chambers, Cynthia A. Vinson, and Wynne E. Norton (eds)
While many effective interventions have been developed with the potential to significantly reduce morbidity and mortality from cancer, they are of no benefit to the health of populations if ...
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The Art and Science of Compassion, A Primer: Reflections of a Physician-Chaplain
Agnes M.F. Wong
The Art and Science of Compassion, A Primer is designed as a short, “all-in-one,” introductory text that covers the full gamut of compassion, from the evolutional, biological, ...
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Cancer Caregivers
Allison J. Applebaum (ed.)
Cancer caregivers are an essential extension of the healthcare team. Rapid advances in cancer care, including new drugs and immunotherapies and more sophisticated diagnostic tools, have ...
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Care of the Imminently Dying
Betty Ferrell, Nessa Coyle, Judith Paice, and Judith Paice (ed.)
Skillful nursing care during the final hours of life can bring comfort and quality, not only to the patient but also to the patient’s loved ones who are attending the death. Symptom burden ...
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Caring for the Family Caregiver
Elaine Wittenberg, Joy Goldsmith, Sandra L. Ragan, and Terri Ann Parnell
This remarkable work reveals the plight of the family caregiver in chronic illness through the prism of communication. Examining the high cost and poorly addressed exigencies of the ...
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Clinical Pocket Guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing
Constance Dahlin, Patrick Coyne, and Betty Ferrell (eds)
The Clinical Pocket Guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing is a companion guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing, the first text devoted to advanced practice nursing care of ...
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Communication in Palliative Nursing: The COMFORT Model (2 edn)
Elaine Wittenberg, Joy V. Goldsmith, Sandra L. Ragan, and Terri Ann Parnell
Communication in Palliative Nursing presents the COMFORT Model, a theoretically-grounded and empirically-based model of palliative care communication. Built on over a decade of ...
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Compassion: The Essence of Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Philip J. Larkin
Compassion is a complex and multifaceted concept that has been explored from a range of cultural, philosophical, theological, and sociological perspectives. It can be considered a ...
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Culture, Brain, and Analgesia: Understanding and Managing Pain in Diverse Populations
Mario Incayawar and Knox H. Todd
This resource discusses how a multidisciplinary and integrative approach to pain and analgesia should be considered by pain practitioners who treat patients with pain. Some familiarity with ...
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Ethics in Palliative Care: A Complete Guide
Robert C. Macauley
No specialty faces more diverse and challenging ethical dilemmas than palliative medicine. What is the best way to plan ahead for the end of life? How should physicians respond when ...
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Expert Decision Making on Opioid Treatment
Jane Ballantyne and David J. Tauben (eds)
This resource aims to provide clinicians with expert opinion on how to manage certain common scenarios involving opioid management of chronic pain. It provides the reader not only with an ...
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A Field Manual for Palliative Care in Humanitarian Crises
Elisha Waldman and Marcia Glass (eds)
For years, humanitarian relief efforts have focused primarily on saving lives. Traditional methods of triage have been employed, and those thought likely to die have been placed in an ...
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Gender in Psycho-Oncology
Youngmee Kim and Matthew J. Loscalzo (eds)
As cancer treatment has evolved toward precision medicine, psychosocial research and practices for cancer patients and their family members have also raised awareness of the need for a ...
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Geriatric Palliative Care
Emily Chai (ed.) , Diane Meier (ed.) , Jane Morris (ed.) , and Suzanne Goldhirsch
The growing geriatric population has created an increasing need for palliative medicine services across the range of medical and surgical specialties, but palliative medicine lacks the ...
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Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care Flashcards
Sriram Yennurajalingam and Eduardo Bruera (eds)
In the United States, the subspecialty of hospice and palliative medicine has seen rapid growth since it was recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties. During the past decade, ...
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Hostility to Hospitality: Spirituality and Professional Socialization within Medicine
Michael J. Balboni and Tracy A. Balboni
Spiritual sickness troubles American medicine. Through a death-denying culture, medicine has gained enormous power—an influence it maintains by distancing itself from religion and ...
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Internal Medicine Issues in Palliative Cancer Care
David Hui and Eduardo Bruera (eds)
Patients with advanced cancer may develop a number of clinical complications related to tumor progression or a variety of aggressive treatments. The majority of these patients are elderly, ...
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Managing Pain: Essentials of Diagnosis and Treatment
Chad M. Brummett and Steven P. Cohen (eds)
This resource offers a fundamental guide on the diagnosis and therapy of frequently encountered pain conditions for non-pain physicians and clinicians. Written using easily-accessible ...
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Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy for Patients with Advanced Cancer: A Treatment Manual
William S. Breitbart and Shannon R. Poppito
The importance of spiritual well-being and the role of "meaning" in moderating depression, hopelessness and desire for death in terminally-ill cancer and AIDS patients has been ...
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