Palliative Care Nursing 3rd Edition

<b>Palliative Care Nursing: 3rd Edition</b> <ul> <li>A must-read for nursing students, professional nurses, and other health and social care professionals providing supportive and palliative care</li> <li>Extensively revised and examines important research studies, key debates around care, and strategies to advance palliative care nursing</li> <li>Four sections covering key elements of nursing practice towards the end of life</li> <li>Leading authors address contemporary issues and explore how to provide high quality, person-centred palliative care</li> <li>Clarity of evidence presented and coverage of a diverse range of topics make this the foundational textbook for all studying palliative care</li></ul>Palliative Care Nursing, 3rd Edition is essential reading for nursing students, professional nurses and other health and social care professionals providing supportive and palliative care to those with advanced illness or who are towards the end of life. This third edition of the acclaimed textbook has been extensively revised and examines important research studies, key debates around care and strategies to advance palliative care nursing. In four sections, the book covers key elements of nursing practice towards the end of life: Defining the palliative care patient, Providing palliative nursing care, Caring around the time of death, and Challenging issues in palliative care nursing. Leading authors address contemporary issues and explore how to provide high quality person-centred palliative care, encouraging application to practice through exercises and case studies. Chapters completely reworked or new for this edition include those on communication, living with uncertainty, bereavement care, the costs of caring, nurses decision-making and capacity, and palliative care worldwide. The clarity of evidence presented and coverage of a diverse range of topics make this the foundational textbook for all studying palliative care at pre-registration level, postgraduate level or as part of CPD study. With a foreword by last edition editor, Professor Sheila Payne, Lancaster University, UK, Palliative Care Nursing, 3rd Edition is a book of substance that captures the current status of palliative nursing, including the values and research evidence that underpin it. It covers a range of challenging issues as well as drawing on the wisdom of those who actually undertake this work on a daily basis. It will be an excellent resource for nursing, both in the UK and Ireland and to the wider international audience.