Conversations in Palliative Care: Questions and Answers with the Experts (Conversations in Palliative Care) - Softcover

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Presented in a Question and Answer format, Conversations in Palliative Care is a comprehensive resource built upon a foundation of the basics of defining palliative care and hospice, communicating with patients and families and with other professionals, spiritual care, bereavement and more. Nurses who are not familiar with the field of palliative care will find this text a helpful orientation tool to key principles for application to families and patients in care settings such as emergency rooms, intensive care units, general medical areas and long-term care facilities. This book also offers unique features including topics such as nutrition, physical therapy, and occupational therapy. In addition, the “how to” sections of the text discuss starting a palliative care program. [Excerpt from the Foreword by Betty Ferrell] Expert clinicians know that most conversations with the seriously ill and dying begin in “shallow water” wherein patients share basic information about their lives and circumstances. As trusting relationships develop, patients are willing to “wade deeper” into conversations with nurses and other clinicians in which ultimately their greatest joys, concerns, fears and regrets are shared. These deep conversations give voice to what must be spoken in order for a life to be complete and peaceful and dignified death to be realized. For clinicians, the courage to wade deeply into the water of end of life conversations transforms the relationships provides the necessary insight for the clinician to orchestrate the care needed and ultimately, the clinician is also transformed in the process within the conversation. HPNA has a NO RETURN policy on all items.

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