This informative new book provides the professional nurse or care-giver with practical guidance in the care of a dying patient. Epidemiology and theories related to dying are presented as well as information on comfort, pain control, sleep, mobility and relief of spiritual distress. Family and society support are covered with discussions of hospice and alternate bereavement services. This book also contains a special section focusing on relationships between nurses and particularly vulnerable populations such as AIDS patients. View More...
Hospice is the primary system to provide care for the terminally ill and their families. Warm, compassionate, and absolutely practical, this definitive resource from the National Hospice Organization will answer all your questions about hospice care and will show you how to make this comprehensive and flexible system work for you and your family. The Hospice Choice illustrates the gamut of situations dying people and their families may face and suggests ways to manage them. Throughout is information on the broad range of services hospice can provide: Physicians and Nursing Services: to help ... View More...
In this caring, timely book veteran nurse researcher and nurse educator Mary Elizabeth O'Brien provides a spiritual perspective on the professional nurse's vocation of caring. Grounding each chapter in scripture from both Old and New Testaments, she beautifully explores the Christian nurse's call to love as Jesus loved: without discrimination, without reserve and sometimes without reward. In sharing some thoughts on favorite scripture passages that might be meaningful to nurses, O'Brien includes anecdotes derived from her clinical experience and the experiences of other Christian nurses that i... View More...