Principles and Practice of Palliative Care Nursing: A Clinical Guide to Symptom Management, End-of-Life Care, Communication, and Family Support - Brossura

HALEY, ESTEBAN A.; FRITSCH, CIERRA G.

Brossura

ISBN 13: 9798181102002

Casa editrice: Independently published, 2026

Riassunto

Serious illness care demands more than protocol knowledge; it requires sound judgment, compassionate presence, and clear clinical reasoning.

Principles and Practice of Palliative Care Nursing is a professional educational reference for advanced practice nurses, hospice and palliative clinicians, graduate nursing students, and interdisciplinary health teams who want a structured foundation for serious illness care across settings.

Inside, readers are guided through the evolving APRN role, evidence-based practice, multidimensional assessment, complex symptom evaluation, ethical reasoning, advance planning conversations, ICU and hospice settings, pediatric considerations, caregiver concerns, grief support, and palliative program leadership. The book is designed for readers who need both practical bedside clarity and a broader understanding of the systems, communication skills, and ethical frameworks that shape high-quality palliative practice.

Rather than treating symptom care, ethics, and family communication as separate topics, this textbook connects them as they appear in real clinical work: complicated, emotional, interdisciplinary, and deeply patient-centered. It is useful for independent reading, course support, professional review, and clinical team development.

With this text, you can:

• Strengthen your approach to whole-person assessment across physical, emotional, social, and spiritual domains.
• Build clearer reasoning for complex pain, breathlessness, gastrointestinal, neuropsychiatric, skin, wound, and end-of-life concerns.
• Navigate goals-of-care discussions, advance planning, surrogate decision-making, and treatment-limitation conversations with greater confidence.
• Apply ethical frameworks to difficult serious illness scenarios while keeping patient values central.
• Support caregivers, families, and bereaved loved ones with practical communication and care-continuity principles.
• Review palliative nursing concepts in a structured format useful for professional study and clinical reference.

If you are looking for a comprehensive palliative nursing resource that connects assessment, communication, ethics, symptom-focused reasoning, and care delivery across real-world settings, this textbook belongs in your professional library.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Independently published
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 13: 9798181102002
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 465
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