Palliative care: core skills and clincial competencies

by Emanuel, Linda L. Librach, S. Lawrence

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Full title :Palliative care : core skills and clincial competencies / [edited by] Linda L. Emanuel, S. Lawrence Librach

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011
Edition:2. ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Elsevier Saunders
Place of Publication:Philadelphia
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011

Notes

"Expert consult online and print."

The Physical Object

Description:xxviii, 724 p. : : ill

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781437716191, 1437716199
oclc:ocn768656761
LC Classification:R726.8
Dewey Decimal:616 .029

Section 1. Paliative care: core skills. -- Part A: General foundations. -- 1. Palliative Care: A Quiet Revolution in Patient Care ; 2. Comprehensive Assessment ; 3. Communication Skills ; 4. Negotiating Goals of Care: Changing Goals along the Trajectory of Illness ; 5. "Who knows?" 10 steps to better prognostication. -- Part B: Physical and psychological symptoms. -- 6. Multiple Symptoms and Multiple Illnesses ; 7. Pain ; 8. Nausea and Vomiting ; 9A: Cachexia ; 9B: Fatigue ; 10. Depression and Anxiety ; 11. Delirium ; 12. Constipation ; 13. Urinary Incontinence ; 14. Sexuality ; 15. Dyspnea ; 16. Supporting the family in palliative care ; 17. Local Wound Care for palliative and malignant wounds. -- Part C: Personel contexts. -- 18. Loss, Bereavement, and Adaptation ; 19. Understanding and Respecting Cultural Differences. -- Part D: Specific situations and skill sets. -- 20. Advance Care Planning ; 21. Responding to Requests for Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide ; 22. Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Therapies ; 23. Last Hours of Living ; 24. Legal and Ethical Issues in the United States.

Section 2. Specific types of illness and sites of care. -- 25. Hematology/…