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End-Of-Life-Care: A Practical Guide, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780071545273 / Angielski / Miękka / 880 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The most thorough text available on providing patients and families with quality end-of-life care "The study/learning questions at the end of each chapter make this book an excellent resource for both faculty who wish to test knowledge, and individual learners who wish to assess their own learning....The book is well written and easy to read. 3 Stars."--Doody's Review Service End of Life Care: A Practical Guide offers solution-oriented coverage of the real-world issues and challenges that arise daily for clinicians caring for those with life-limiting... The most thorough text available on providing patients and families with quality end-of-life care "The study/learning questions at th... |
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Hospice and Palliative Care in Africa : A review of developments and challenges
ISBN: 9780199206803 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conflict, poverty, endemic diseases, and lack of clean water pose serious challenges for the population in Africa, a continent which encompasses some 50 countries. This work focuses on palliative care and hospice development in Africa, examining the development of palliative care services in 26 African countries, from different perspectives.
Conflict, poverty, endemic diseases, and lack of clean water pose serious challenges for the population in Africa, a continent which encompasses some ...
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Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780197559321 / Angielski / Twarda / 840 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Towards Death with Dignity: Caring for Dying People
ISBN: 9781032046747 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Medical Futility: A Cross-National Study
ISBN: 9781848169906 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Medical futility is a controversial issue not only in its definition but also in its application. There are few books on the subject, and those in existence mostly focus on the situation in the United States. This title, however, provides extensive international perspectives on medical futility.This book will benefit healthcare professionals as well as health policy makers around the world. It allows them to see how different countries approach the issue of medical futility and their experiences in dealing with this issue. The complexity of the issue, and in particular how some countries...
Medical futility is a controversial issue not only in its definition but also in its application. There are few books on the subject, and those in exi...
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Childness and the Myth of the Unfinished Human: End of Life Medical Ethics in Children
ISBN: 9783032121103 / Angielski / 27-06-2026 Książka dostępna od: 27-06-2026 |
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Nursing Stories: Life and Death in a German Hospice
ISBN: 9781845451516 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At a time, when the section of the older population is increasing in all western societies, more and more attention needs to be paid to the growing number of people who live with and die of drawn-out terminal illnesses, cancer being one of the most common ones. This study focuses on terminally ill people in a German hospice and addresses the question how meaningful experience is constructed for these patients in an attempt to preserve their dignity as persons. It is based on detailed and sometimes moving material from diary texts and active participation of the author in the role of a... At a time, when the section of the older population is increasing in all western societies, more and more attention needs to be paid to the growin... |
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Hospice Care and Culture: A Comparison of the Hospice Movement in the West and Japan
ISBN: 9781138317482 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1999, Maruyama explores some significant difficulties and differences in bringing the western hospice philosophy to the Japanese medical culture. Whilst not giving any definite answers, this study determines what some of the critical questions that need to be considered into Japanese medicine, as Mayuyama argues without defining these questions to begin with we cannot find appropriate solutions.
First published in 1999, Maruyama explores some significant difficulties and differences in bringing the western hospice philosophy to the Japanese me...
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Communication in Palliative Care
ISBN: 9781032547596 / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Cicely Saunders : Selected writings 1958-2004
ISBN: 9780198570530 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cicely Saunders is universally acclaimed as a pioneer of modern hospice care. Trained initially in nursing and social work, she qualified in medicine in 1958 and subsequently dedicated the whole of her professional life to improving the care of the dying and bereaved people. Founding St. Christopher's Hospice in London in 1967, she encouraged a radical new approach to end of life care combining attention to physical, social, emotional and spiritual problems, brilliantly captured in her concept of "total pain." Her ideas about clinical care, education and research have been hugely influential,...
Cicely Saunders is universally acclaimed as a pioneer of modern hospice care. Trained initially in nursing and social work, she qualified in medicine ...
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Neuropalliative Care: A Guide to Improving the Lives of Patients and Families Affected by Neurologic Disease
ISBN: 9783319932149 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Palliative Care Nursing: Quality Care to the End of Life
ISBN: 9780826127129 / Angielski / Miękka / 725 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the best level of evidence available, reference to clinical practice guidelines, and palliative care order sets to address critical symptoms, the knowledge presented in this fifth edition supports compassionate, timely, appropriate and cost-effective care to achieve quality health outcomes for diverse palliative care populations across the illness trajectory.
Based on the best level of evidence available, reference to clinical practice guidelines, and palliative care order sets to address critical symptoms,...
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Palliative Day Care in Practice
ISBN: 9780192631831 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Day care centres are growing important in palliative care, providing a variety of services from out-patient clinics to art therapy classes. They are proving to be a cost-effective way of providing care, and of accustomising patients to the hospice environment before full time adm ittance. They can also improve quality of life by giving patients and carers time away from one another. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current philosophy, patterns and policies of pallaiti ve day care. It places emphasis on the need to evaluate performance in palliative day care and describes in...
Day care centres are growing important in palliative care, providing a variety of services from out-patient clinics to art therapy classes. They are p...
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Geriatric Palliative Care: A Practical Guide for Clinicians
ISBN: 9780195389319 / Angielski / Miękka / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The growing geriatric population in the United States has created an increasing need for palliative medicine services across the range of medical and surgical specialties. Yet, palliative medicine lacks the resources to carry such a workload itself. Geriatric Palliative Care addresses this need by encouraging individual specialties to "own" the management of elderly with the same vigor as they "own" other key management competencies within their specialty. This clinically focused and highly practical handbook, which compliments the more comprehensive text Geriatric Palliative Care by Sean...
The growing geriatric population in the United States has created an increasing need for palliative medicine services across the range of medical and ...
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Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work
ISBN: 9780199739110 / Angielski / Twarda / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work is a comprehensive, evidence-informed text that addresses the needs of professionals who provide interdisciplinary, culturally sensitive, biopsychosocial-spiritual care for patients and families living with life-threatening illness. Social workers from diverse settings will benefit from its international scope and wealth of patient and family narratives. Unique to this scholarly text is its emphasis on the collaborative nature inherent in palliative care. This definitive resource is edited by two leading palliative social work pioneers...
The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work is a comprehensive, evidence-informed text that addresses the needs of professionals who provid...
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Spiritual Care in Palliative Care: What it is and Why it Matters
ISBN: 9783031508639 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Palliative Care Ethics : A Companion for All Specialties
ISBN: 9780192630681 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Palliative care is a rapidly growing area within health care and one i n which there are many ethical dilemmas. Chronically and terminally il l patients increasingly wish to take control of their own lives and de aths, resources are scarce and technology has created controversial li fe-prolonging treatment. This book has been written by a clinician and a teacher and writer of health care ethics to provide all those who c are for the terminally ill - doctors, nurses, social workers, physioth erapists, clergy and other carers - with the concepts and principles t o assist them in difficult...
Palliative care is a rapidly growing area within health care and one i n which there are many ethical dilemmas. Chronically and terminally il l patien...
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Delirium: Acute Confusional States in Palliative Medicine
ISBN: 9780199572052 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Delirium is a complex syndrome with a multifactorial aetiology and is characterized by marked disturbances of consciousness, attention, memory, perception, thought, sleep-wake cycle, and by fluctuation of symptoms. This book covers in detail the pathophysiology, epidemiology, clinical aspects, differential diagnosis, and management of the syndrome. Due to the special characteristics of the syndrome, specific chapters deal with different aetiologies and populations at risk, with emphasis on the critically ill and palliative care patients. As delirium often announces or anticipates the...
Delirium is a complex syndrome with a multifactorial aetiology and is characterized by marked disturbances of consciousness, attention, memory, percep...
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The Life-Threatened Elderly
ISBN: 9780231049665 / Angielski / Twarda / 359 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Palliative Care in the Home
ISBN: 9780192632272 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most people with far-advanced illness wish to be cared for at home for as long as possible. The challenge of providing good palliative care at home is therefore of major importance for family doctors, nurses and all those committed to maintaining the highest possible quality of life for the dying person. As modern specialist palliative care has raised both standards of care and also public expectations of family doctors and community nurses, this book helps to place specialist care in context. As palliative care is a major responsibility for teams providing palliative care at home, this book...
Most people with far-advanced illness wish to be cared for at home for as long as possible. The challenge of providing good palliative care at home is...
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