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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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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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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Drugs in Palliative Care (2 ed.)
Andrew Dickman
Providing an overview of pharmacology and prescribing advice, this second edition contains over 160 drug monographs, presented in an A-Z format. Fully revised and updated, this detailed yet ...
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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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Heart Failure (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in End of Life Care): From Advanced Disease to Bereavement
Miriam Johnson, Karen Hogg, and James Beattie
Excellent end of life care for people with heart failure is challenging but possible. In easily digestible summaries, this resource presents practical advice about how and when to integrate ...
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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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Kidney Disease (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in End of Life Care): From advanced disease to bereavement (2 ed.)
Edwina A. Brown, Fliss E. M. Murtagh, and Emma Murphy
This resource provides practical guidance on end of life management for patients with renal disease. It is presented in easily accessible, bullet point style, and is illustrated with case ...
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Legal and Ethical Aspects of Care
Nessa Coyle and Betty R. Ferrell (eds)
Effective palliative care that rests on a sound ethical foundation requires ongoing discussions about patient and family values and preferences. This is especially important when addressing ...
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Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy in the Cancer Setting: Finding Meaning and Hope in the Face of Suffering
William S. Breitbart (ed.)
There is an evolution taking place regarding the nature and scope of the clinical goals of psychotherapeutic or counseling interventions in the palliative care setting. Meaning-Centered ...
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Oxford Case Histories in Oncology
Thankamma Ajithkumar, Adrian Harnett, and Tom Roques (eds)
Oxford Case Histories in Oncology contains 30 well-structured cases from clinical practice, giving a comprehensive coverage of the diagnostic and management dilemmas in oncology. The cases ...
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Oxford Textbook of Palliative Care for Children (2 ed.)
Ann Goldman, Richard Hain, and Stephen Liben
Comprehensive in scope and definitive in authority, this second edition has been thoroughly updated to cover new practices, current epidemiological data and the evolving models that support ...
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Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine (5 ed.)
Nathan Cherny, Marie Fallon, Stein Kaasa, Russell K. Portenoy, and David C. Currow (eds)
This new edition of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine has been thoroughly updated to offer a truly global perspective in this field, and new sections include information on ...
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Oxford Textbook of Spirituality in Healthcare
Mark R Cobb, Christina M Puchalski, and Bruce Rumbold
Spirituality and healthcare is an emerging field of research, practice and policy, and healthcare organisations and practitioners are therefore challenged to understand and address ...
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Pain and Palliation (Oxford General Practice Library)
Karen O'Reilly, Max Watson, and Chantal Simon
This is a guide for the practising GP on how to help in the management of patients presenting with pain or other common distressing symptoms. This online reference is split into two ...
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Palliative Care (2 ed.)
Christina Faull and Kerry Blankley
Patients with advanced disease present some of the most challenging ethical, physical, psychological and social issues to clinicians and to society. This fully revised and updated new ...
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Palliative Care in Nephrology
Alvin H. Moss, Dale E. Lupu, Nancy C. Armistead, and Louis Diamond (eds)
Palliative care has become increasingly important across the spectrum of healthcare, and with it, the need for education and training of a broad range of medical practitioners not ...
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