SECTION I General Principles
1. Introduction to Palliative Nursing / Betty Rolling Ferrell 2. National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care: Assuring Quality Palliative Care through Clinical Practice Guidelines / Constance M. Dahlin
3. Hospital-Based Palliative Care / Patricia Maani-Fogelman
4. Principles of Patient and Family Assessment / John D. Chovan
5. Communication in Palliative Care: An Essential Competency for Nurses / Constance M. Dahlin and Elaine Wittenberg
6. Advance Care Planning /Shigeko Izumi
SECTION II Symptom Assessment and Management
7. Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Teams: Specialists in Delivering Palliative Care / Polly Mazanec, Rebekah Reimer, Jessica Bullington, Patrick J. Coyne, Herman Harris, II, Mary Catherine Dubois, Catherine Rogers, and Jennifer Aron
8. Pain Assessment / Regina M. Fink, Rose A. Gates, and Kate D. Jeffers
9. Pain Management / Judith A. Paice
10. Fatigue / Edith O'Neil-Page, Grace E. Dean, and Paula R. Anderson
11. Anorexia and Cachexia / Elizabeth E. Schack and Dorothy Wholihan
12. Nausea and Vomiting / David Collett and Kimberly Chow
13. Dysphagia, Hiccups, and Other Oral Symptoms / Rachel Klinedinst, Audrey Kurash Cohen, and Constance M. Dahlin
14. Bowel Management: Constipation, Obstruction, Diarrhea, and Ascites / Stefanie N. Mooney, Purvi Patel, and Sorin Buga
15. Artificial Nutrition and Hydration / Katy M. Lanz, Michelle S. Gabriel, and Jennifer A. Tschanz
16. Dyspnea, Cough, and Terminal Secretions / DorAnne Donesky
17. Bladder Management in Palliative Care / Naomi Farrington and Catherine Murphy
18. Lymphedema Management / Mei R. Fu, Bonnie B. Lasinski, Janet H. Van Cleave, and Charles P. Tilley
19. Palliative Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Care / Charles P. Tilley, Mei R. Fu, and Jana M. Lipson
20. Pruritus, Fever, and Sweats / Angel Smothers
21. Neurological Disorders / Margaret A. Schwartz
22. Anxiety and Depression / Jaroslava Salman, Emma Wolfe, and Sunita K. Patel
23. Delirium, Confusion, and Agitation / Wendy Goldberg, Greg Mahr, Amy M. Williams, and Michael Ryan
24. Insomnia / Karla Schroeder
25. Sexuality and Intimacy in Serious Illness and at the End of Life / Heather Shaw and Joshua Fronk
26. Urgent Syndromes at the End of Life / Quinten Robertson and Kelli Gershon
27. Sedation for Refractory Symptoms / Bonnie Freeman and Chandana Banerjee
28. Complementary and Integrative Therapies in Palliative Care / Mary-Anne Meyer and Melinda Ring
29. Withdrawal of Invasive Mechanical Ventilation / Margaret K. Campbell
SECTION III Psychosocial and Spiritual Support
30. The Meaning of Hope in the Dying / Valerie T. Cotter and Anessa M. Foxwell
31. Bereavement / Inge B. Corless and Janice Bell Meisenhelder
32. Supporting Families and Family Caregivers in Palliative Care / Kelli I. Stajduhar and J. Nicholas Dionne-Odom
33. Planning for the Actual Death / Patricia Berry and Julie Griffie
34. Spiritual Screening, History, and Assessment / Elizabeth Johnston Taylor
35. Spiritual Care Intervention / William Rosa
36. Meaning in Illness / Tami Borneman and Katherine Brown-Saltzman
SECTION IV Special Patient Populations
37. Cultural Considerations in Palliative Care / Carrie Cormack, Polly Mazanec, and Joan T. Panke
38. Older Adult Patients in the Community / Carol O. Long
39. Poor, Homeless and Underserved Populations / Caroline Olney, Sarah Stroe, and Anne Hughes
40. Palliative Care for Patients with Mental Illness / John D. Chovan and Betty D. Morgan
41. Palliative Care for People Living with HIV / Jacquelyn Slomka
42. Caring for the Patient with Substance Use Disorder at the End of Life / Peggy Compton, Yu-Ping Chang, and Salimah Meghani
43. Cancer Survivorship / Anne Reb and Denice Economou
44. Veterans / Deborah Grassman
45. Organ Donation / Lissi Hansen and Lauren F. Dunn
46. Pulmonary Palliative Care / Patricia A. Maani-Fogelman and Ruby A. Weller
47. Palliative Care in Heart Failure / J. Nicholas Dionne-Odom, Rachel Wells, and Keith M. Swetz
SECTION V End-of-Life Care across Settings
48. Improving the Quality of Care across All Settings / Marilyn Bookbinder, Romina Arceo, and James T. McDaniel
49. Long-term Care: Focus on Nursing Homes / Joan Carpenter and Mary Ersek
50. Palliative Care in the Community / Nancy Robertson and Barbara Sutton
51. The Intensive Care Unit / Jennifer K. McAdam and Celine Gelinas
52. Palliative Care Nursing in the Outpatient Setting / Pamela Stitzlein Davies and Kathleen Broglio
53. Palliative Care in the Emergency Department / Rebecca Wright and Benjamin Roberts
54. The Role of Nursing Caring for Patients Receiving Palliative Surgery or Chemotherapy / Virginia Sun, Tami Tittelfitz, and Marjorie J. Hein
55. Rural Palliative Care / Richard A. Taylor, J. Nicholas Dionne-Odom, Erin R. Currie, Macy Stockdill, and Marie A. Bakitas
56. The Role of PT, OT, and Other Therapies in Palliative Care for Seriously Ill Patients / Dennis Lin, Megan Borjan, Seanell D. San Andres, and Christina Kelly
57. Value-Based Care / Finly Zachariah and William Dale
SECTION VI Pediatric Palliative Care
58. Symptom Management in Pediatric Palliative Care / Joan "Jody" Chrastek and Camara van Breemen
59. Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care / Vanessa Battista and Gwenn LaRagione
60. Pediatric Goals of Care: Leading through Uncertainty / Christina McDaniel and Jordan M. Desai
61. End-of-Life Decision Making in Pediatric Oncology / Deborah A. Lafond and Katherine Patterson Kelly
62. Palliative Care in the Perinatal Setting: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Labor and Delivery Unit / Cheryl Ann Thaxton, Diana Jacobson, Heather Murphy, and Tracey Whitley
63. Grief and Bereavement in Perinatal and Pediatric Palliative Care / Rana Limbo, Kathie Kobler, and Betty Davies
64. Pediatric Pain: Knowing the Child Before You / Juliana H. O'Brien and Maggie C. Root
65. Supporting Adolescents with a Parent in Hospice / Denice Sheehan, Dana Hansen, M. Murray Mayo, Diane Snyder Cowan, and Pamela Stephenson
66. Use of Social Media as a Communication Tool for People with Serious Illness and Their Families / Dana Hansen, Amy Petrinec, and Nidal Harb
67. Access to Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care / Lisa C. Lindley and Jessica Keim-Malpass
SECTION VII Special Issues for the Nurse in End-of-Life Care
68. The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse / Clareen Wiencek and Alexander Wolf
69. Self-Care / Kathy G. Kravits
70. Ethical Considerations in Palliative Care / Maryjo Prince-Paul and Barbara J. Daly
71. Palliative Care and Requests for Assistance in Dying / Carey T. Ramirez, Kathleen Fundalinski, Judy Knudson, and John Himberger
72. Nursing Education / Pam Malloy and Andra Davis
73. Nursing Research / Terrah Foster Akard, Karen Hyden, and Mary Jo Gilmer
74. Advocacy in Palliative Nursing: A Conceptual Model / Nessa Coyle and Timothy W. Kirk
75. Global Palliative Care / Virginia LeBaron and Annette Galassi
76. The Ethos of Palliative Nursing / Mark Lazenby and Michael Anthony Moore |
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