Palliative Care Nursing: Quality Care to the End of Life, 2nd Edition

Book info: Palliative Care Nursing: Quality Care to the End of Life, 2nd Edition (Hardcover, 496 pages) – Springer Publishing Company, 2005. Language: English.

Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award

The second edition of this award-winning text provides the essential guide to achieving best practices in palliative care nursing. It offers a blend of holistic, spiritual, cultural, and humanistic caring coupled with aggressive management of pain and symptoms associated with advanced disease. With over 20 percent of the book covering pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic pain management, and with a focus on both clinical and holistic treatment, major figures in the field of palliative care nursing outline eleven specific skill competencies in this specialty.

Used as a resource in the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Cancer Institute, which has successfully trained thousands of nurse educators, and organized around the competencies in palliative care nursing developed by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, this book is an essential resource for both students and practitioners.

• Updated information in each chapter
• New chapter on professional organizations and certification in palliative care nursing

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Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award

The second edition of this award-winning text provides the essential guide to achieving best practices in palliative care nursing. It offers a blend of holistic, spiritual, cultural, and humanistic caring coupled with aggressive management of pain and symptoms associated with advanced disease. With over 20 percent of the book covering pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic pain management, and with a focus on both clinical and holistic treatment, major figures in the field of palliative care nursing outline eleven specific skill competencies in this specialty.

Used as a resource in the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Cancer Institute, which has successfully trained thousands of nurse educators, and organized around the competencies in palliative care nursing developed by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, this book is an essential resource for both students and practitioners.

• Updated information in each chapter
• New chapter on professional organizations and certification in palliative care nursing

Marianne Matzo, PhD, APRN-CNP, AOCNP, ACHPN, FPCN, FAAN, is the director of research for the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is an oncology nurse practitioner at the VA Medical Center and is a clinical professor at the Department of Family Medicine, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine.

Deborah Witt Sherman, PhD, APRN, ANP-BC, ACHPN, FAAN is a Professor with tenure at Florida International University (FIU) and has a strong background in education, research, clinical practice, leadership, and administration. Dr. Sherman is certified as an adult nurse practitioner and a palliative care nurse practitioner. She was awarded the prestigious Project on Death in America Faculty Scholars Fellowship, funded by the Soros Foundation in 1998, to develop and implement the first Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner Program in the U.S. at New York University, and in 2005 brought the program to Tenshi College in Japan. In addition, Dr. Sherman was funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to fund the nurse practitioner program and received funding from NYU and the Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses Association to develop the first advanced practice palliative care certification exam.