Palliative Nursing

Elaine Stevens is the current chair of The Palliative Nursing Forum of The Royal College of Nursing.  She is also programme leader for the palliative care named award at degree level at The University of The West of Scotland, and she manages the education service at The Ayrshire Hospice Susan Jackson is programme leader for the Post Graduate Certificate in Cancer and Palliative Care at the University of West of Scotland, and is education facilitator with ACCORD Hospice in Paisley. Stuart  Milligan is Lecturer in Palliative Care at the University of the West of Scotland, and Education Facilitator at Ardgowan Hospice, Greenock.

• Preface. Contributors.Introduction.PART 1 – ADULT PALLIATIVE CARE.SECTION 1 – HISTORY AND ETHOS OF PALLIATIVE CARE.1. The History of Palliative Care.2. Definitions and Aims of Palliative Care.3. Providing Palliative Care for Marginalised and Disenfranchised People.SECTION 2 – PALLIATIVE NURSING CARE ACROSS CARE SETTINGS.4. Palliative Nursing Care in the Acute Hospital.5. Palliative Nursing Care in the Community.6. Palliative Nursing Care in Nursing and Residential Care Homes.7. Palliative Nursing Care in Hospices.SECTION 3 – PALLIATIVE NURSING CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH SPECIFIC ILLNESSES.8. Palliative Nursing Care in Heart Failure.9. Palliative Care in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.10. Palliative Care for People Who Have a Dementia.11. Palliative Nursing Care in Other Neurological Conditions.11.1 – Huntington’s Disease.11.2 – Motor Neurone Disease.11.3 – Multiple Sclerosis.11.4 – Parkinson’s Disease.12. Palliative Care for People in End Stage Renal Disease.13. Palliative Care Issues for People with Cancer.14. Palliative Care for People with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Imunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)..PART 2 – PALLIATIVE CARE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE.15. The History and Ethos of Palliative Care for Children and Young People.16. Challenges of Paediatric Palliative Care in The Hospital Setting.17. Children’s Palliative Care in the Hospice and the Community..PART 3 – EDUCATION AND RESEARCH.18. Palliative Nursing Education and Continuing Professional Development.19. Palliative Care Research.

“The book provides the reader with a good understanding of how to provide effective palliative care and how to apply it to practice; I have found the reference to specific illnesses particularly helpful and informative for within practice.” Faye Elliott, 3rd year nursing student, University of Manchester