Nursing Textbook & Workbook | Print
Resources for Every Nurse, Learning to Provide Excellent Hospice Palliative Care
Introducing the Nurse’s Essentials Package, from Life and Death Matters: Resources to assist every nursing student with learning the skills, knowledge, and attitudes of providing excellent hospice palliative care. These resources are grounded in national nursing competencies, standards and codes of ethics, reflecting the changing educational needs of nursing students in Canada.
- Nurse’s text ISBN 978-1-926923-11-6: “Essentials in Hospice and Palliative Care: A Practical Resource for Every Nurse” by Kath Murray Full colour, 300+page text, developed to meet ICN, CNA, CCPNR and ANA HPC nursing competencies, including the new CNA competencies, including additional ethics touchstones
- Nurse’s Workbook ISBN 978-1-926921-13-0: Full colour, 95+page hard copy book of reflective, short answer, and discussion-based learning activities
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Published
January 18, 2018
Length
316 + 99
Language
English
Format
Printed
Publisher
Life and Death Matters
Resources for Every Nurse, Learning to Provide Excellent Hospice Palliative Care
Introducing the Nurse’s Essentials Package, from Life and Death Matters: Resources to assist every nursing student with learning the skills, knowledge, and attitudes of providing excellent hospice palliative care. These resources are grounded in national nursing competencies, standards and codes of ethics, reflecting the changing educational needs of nursing students in Canada.
Nursing students will receive:
- Nurse’s text: “Essentials in Hospice and Palliative Care: A Practical Resource for Every Nurse” by Kath Murray Full colour, 300+page text, developed to meet ICN, CNA, CCPNR and ANA HPC nursing competencies, including the new CNA competencies, including additional ethics touchstones
- Nurse’s Workbook: Full colour, 95+page hard copy book of reflective, short answer, and discussion-based learning activities
- Online Resources—2-year subscription access to:
- Full Colour, online text and Learning Activities/Workbook
- Podcasts
- Videos
Nursing Textbook
Chapter 1: Understanding the Dying Process
- Common Patterns of Dying
- People Have Never Died Like This
- Common Trajectories of Dying
- Reflections
Chapter 2: Integrating a Palliative Approach
- Hospice Care Begins
- Evolving Models of Hospice and Palliative Care
- Common Issues in the Process of Providing Care
- The Next Steps for Hospice and Palliative Care
- Shifting Gears: Integrating a Palliative Approach
- Summary
Chapter 3: Preparing to Care
- Preparing to Care—an Essential Practice
- Best Practice—Personal Characteristics and Ways of Being
- Best Practice Interactions
- Personal Strategies for Preparing to Care
Chapter 4: Using Standardized Tools
- The Rationale for Using Standardized Tools
- Best Practice for Assessments and Information Sharing
- Screening Tools for Identifying People Who Might Benefit from Integrating a Palliative Approach
- Symptom Screening Tools
- Symptom Assessment Tools
- SBAR Communication Tool
- Psychosocial Assessment Tools
- IDEA Ethical Decision-Making Framework
Chapter 5: Enhancing Physical Comfort
- Part 1: Principles and Practices
- Principles of Symptom Management
- Using Opioids to Manage Symptoms
- Addressing the Side Effects of Opioids
- Addressing Concerns and Fears about Opioids
- Best Practices for Relieving Symptoms with Opioids
- Nonpharmacological Comfort Measures—Comfort Basket
- Part 2: Common Symptoms
- Anorexia and Cachexia
- Changes in Bowel Function
- Delirium
- Dyspnea
- Fatigue
- Dry Sore Mouth
- Nausea and Vomiting
- Pain
Chapter 6: Providing Psychosocial Care
- What Is Psychosocial Care?
- Common Psychosocial Responses to the Diagnosis of Life-Limiting Illness
- Supporting People through Times of Transitions
- Experiencing Multiple Losses Due to Progressive Life-Limiting Illness
- Preparing for Expected Losses
- Grief—an Adaptive Response to Loss
- Grief as a Whole Person Experience
- Supporting Hope
- Supporting a Grieving Person
- Facilitating Self-Determination and Autonomy with Advance Care Planning
- Understanding Physician Assisted Dying and Medical Assistance in Dying
- Spirituality and the Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Connection
- Supporting Intimacy and Sexuality
- Strengthening the “Social” in “Psychosocial”
- Supporting Children Whose Loved One Is Dying
Chapter 7: Caring in the Last Days and Hours
- Preparing the Person and the Family for the Last Days and Hours
- Preparing to Meet the Person’s Needs in the Last Days and Hours
- Providing Care in the Last Days and Hours
- When Death Occurs
Chapter 8: Caring for You!
- Providing Care for the Dying Will Change You
- Considering Compassion Fatigue
- Preventing Compassion Fatigue
- Closing Thoughts
Nursing Workbook
- Understanding the Dying Process
- Integrating a Palliative Approach
- Preparing to Care
- Using Standardized tools
- Enhancing Physical Comfort part 1: Principles to Symptom Management
- Enhancing Physical Comfort Part 2: Symptoms
- Anorexia and Cachexia
- Changes in Bowel Function
- Delirium
- Dyspnea
- Nausea and Vomiting
- Pain
- Providing Psychosocial Care
- Caring in the Last Days and Hours
- Caring For You!
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