Compassionate person-centered care for the dying : an evidence-based palliative care guide for nurses / Bonnie Freeman, DNP, ANP, RN, ACHPN.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Springer Publishing Company 2015Description: xix, 275 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780826122476 (paperback) :
- 616.029 23
- R726.8 .F725 2015
- Also issued online.
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Formerly CIP. Uk
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction to the CARES tool -- History of caring for the dying -- Goals and objectives when caring for the dying -- Establishing care of the dying as an acute event -- Identifying most common symptom management needs of the dying -- CARES tool: organization and considerations -- Comfort -- Airway -- Restlessness and delirium -- Emotional and spiritual care -- Self-care -- Foundational nursing theories -- Importance of advocacy -- Achieving compassionate communication -- Promoting a peaceful death -- Case studies -- Changing a culture -- Translating current literature into evidence-based practice: the role of the DNP -- A nursing model for care of the dying -- Versions and influence of the CARES tool -- Preserving hope -- Knowledge translation for effecting practice change / Margaret Fitch -- Leading change : stories and perspectives / Tracey Das Gupta -- Summary of Steven's peaceful death -- Recommended learning resources for care of the dying.
This reference for palliative care nurses provides realistic, and achievable, evidence-based methods for incorporating compassionate and humanistic care for the dying into current standards of practice. It also builds on Bonnie Freeman's research-based CARES tool, shich synthesises five key elements demonstrated to enable a peaceful death as free from suffering as possible.
Also issued online.
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