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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!