Clinical Pocket Guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing

Constance Dahlin is the Director of Professional Practice for the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a Palliative Nurse Practitioner at North Shore Medical Center in Salem, Massachusetts.CD: Patrick J. Coyne is the Director of Palliative Care and the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina.Betty R. Ferrell is a Professor and Director of Nursing Research and Education in the Department of Population Sciences at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center in Duarte, California.

• Chapter 1: PainChapter 2: DyspneaChapter 3: Bowel Symptoms: Constipation, Diarrhea, and ObstructionChapter 4: Challenging Symptoms: Dry Mouth, Hiccups, Fevers, Pruritus, and Sleep DisordersChapter 5: Nausea and VomitingChapter 6: AnxietyChapter 7: DeliriumChapter 8: Depression and SuicideChapter 9: Palliative EmergenciesChapter 10: Discontinuation of Life Sustaining TherapiesChapter 11: Withdrawal of Cardiology TechnologyChapter 12: Withdrawal of Respiratory TechnologyChapter 13: Palliative SedationChapter 14: Pediatric Palliative Care across the ContinuumChapter 15: Palliative Care of the Geriatric Patient

...interesting (and useful) chapters on the discontinuation of life-sustaining therapies, and the withdrawal of cardiac and respiratory technology.