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Compact Clinical Guide to Cancer Pain Management: An Evidence-Based Approach for Nurses (The Compact Clinical Guide) - Softcover

Davies, Pamela Stitzlein; D'arcy, Yvonne

 
9780826109736: Compact Clinical Guide to Cancer Pain Management: An Evidence-Based Approach for Nurses (The Compact Clinical Guide)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 082610973X ISBN 13: 9780826109736
Verlag: Springer Publishing Co Inc, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

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This concise, comprehensive, evidence-based guide to managing cancer pain will enable nurses on the front lines of pain management to incorporate effective strategies into their daily practice. It is designed to facilitate quick information retrieval. This book focuses on all aspects of cancer pain, including assessment and screening tools, pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatment options, current national guidelines for pain management, regional anesthesia techniques, patient-controlled anesthesia, and epidural pain management. It also includes updated information on the effect of opioid polymorphisms, cancer pain emergencies, myofascial pain, chronic pain in cancer survivors, and much more. It serves as an important review for the ONS and HPNA Certification exam.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Pamela Stitzlein Davies, MS, ARNP, ACHPN, is an Adult/Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in Supportive & Palliative Care at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance/University of Washington. She is a Teaching Associate at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and Clinical Faculty with the University of Washington School of Nursing, and is an Advanced Certified Hospice & Palliative Nurse. She provides complex symptom management and psychosocial support to those with advanced cancer. Ms. Davies has practiced as an Inpatient Hospice Center NP at Evergreen Healthcare, Kirkland, WA, providing comprehensive care to terminally ill patients requiring inpatient care for complex physical symptoms or psychosocial issues. Ms. Davies assisted in the creation of the University of California, San Francisco, Pain Clinical Research Center, and was responsible for coordination of all aspects of neuropathic pain clinical trials. Previously, she was a primary care provider at the Veteran's Administration Puget Sound Health Care System; and Charge Nurse in the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit at UCSF. She is a member of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, American Pain Society, and is past Treasurer of the American Society for Pain Management Nursing, She served on the American Pain Society 2010 guidelines committee on Guidelines on Opioids for Non-cancer Pain. Her articles are published in the New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of Pain, and Pain. She is popular speaker on topics of cancer and non-cancer pain management, safe prescribing of opioids, and palliative and end-of-life pain care. Yvonne D'Arcy, MS, CRNP, CNS, is the Pain Management and Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner at Suburban Hospital- Johns Hopkins Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. She has served on the board of directors for the American Society of Pain Management Nurses and has played an integral role in the formulation of several guidelines on the management of acute and chronic pain. She is a Principle Investigator at Suburban Hospital for several studies to include the use of EMLA to reduce pain in elderly patients when IVs are placed. and the Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence -based methods to Measure and Improve Pain Outcomes. Ms. D'Arcy is also the recipient of the Nursing Spectrum Nursing Excellence Award in the Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia districts for Advancing and Leading the Profession. She has contributed to numerous books and journals throughout her career. Books include Pain Management: Evidence-Based Tools and Techniques for Nursing Professionals, Compact Clinical Guide to Chronic Pain, and Her book, How to Manage Pain in the Elderly is an American Journal of Nursing book of the year for 2010.Her books, A Compact Clinical Guide to Cancer Pain co-authored with Pamela Davies, and A Compact Clinical to Women's Pain, are scheduled for a 2012 publication. Ms D'Arcy lectures and presents nationally and internationally on such topics as chronic pain, difficult-to-treat neuropathic pain syndromes, how to teat pain in the elderly, and all aspects of acute pain management. Articles she has published can be found in an extensive number of journals, including but not limited to American Nurse Today, Nursing 2011, Pain Management Nursing, PT Insider, and Nurse Practitioner Journal.

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Verlag
Springer Publishing Co Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
082610973X
ISBN 13 
9780826109736
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
382
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