Palliative care consultations in head and neck cancer
ISBN: 9780198530749 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is designed to give the busy clinician immediate, easy-to-access, and practical advice on problems which may arise in the treatment of patients with head and neck cancer. Both the physical and psychological needs of patients with this distressing disease are covered.
This book is designed to give the busy clinician immediate, easy-to-access, and practical advice on problems which may arise in the treatment of patie...
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301,14 zł |
Education in Palliative Care : Building a Culture of Learning
ISBN: 9780198569855 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Education is key to developing a strong base for the future of palliative care, and this book provides a wide-ranging, global view of palliative care education. It offers theoretical and practical insights, along with specific suggestions for developing knowledge and skills for teaching.
Education is key to developing a strong base for the future of palliative care, and this book provides a wide-ranging, global view of palliative care ...
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374,85 zł |
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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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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482,96 zł |
Hospice Handbook 1993
ISBN: 9780316091381 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years hospice care has gone from a little-known medical alternative to a major movement in health care. By emphasizing palliative care and pain management rather than curative treatment, hospices allow the terminally ill to spend the last days, week, or months of their lives in their own homes, cared for by their families under the supervision of a team of specially trained hospice workers that includes doctors, nurses, social workers, and volunteers. The Hospice Handbook assures us that the terminally ill do have options, and the quality of their lives can still be within their...
In recent years hospice care has gone from a little-known medical alternative to a major movement in health care. By emphasizing palliative care and p...
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86,06 zł |
Palliative Practices: An Interdisciplinary Approach
ISBN: 9780323028219 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book of its kind, this must-have resource examines the integration of palliative interventions from a disease-specific approach, providing practical guidance on caring for patients who follow a progressive, chronic disease trajectory prior to death. This uniquely practical book addresses all aspects of palliative care, going beyond theoretical information to advise practitioners on the most effective management of common symptoms and providing physical, psychological, and spiritual comfort to patients and families. The multidisciplinary focus of care is reflected by collaborative...
The first book of its kind, this must-have resource examines the integration of palliative interventions from a disease-specific approach, providing p...
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186,68 zł |
A Good Death : Conversations with East Londoners
ISBN: 9780415137966 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Good Death is based on a survey in East London and provides a wide range of fascinating and helpful insights into all aspects of experiencing death and surviving grief.
The voices in the book are those of people who have managed to cope despite being under the shadow of impending death. Their experience could be a comfort to anybody in a similar situation. A Good Death is intended for people who are dying, for their lay and professional carers and for student doctors, nurses and social workers. A Good Death is based on a survey in East London and provides a wide range of fascinating and helpful insights into all aspects of experienci...
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881,79 zł |
Too Ill to Talk?: User Involvement in Palliative Care
ISBN: 9780415233170 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. User involvement has become an important part of health policy initiatives during the last decade, but how realistic is the concept and do all users want to be involved? This book brings the voices of people with serious illness, and those caring for them, into debate about how far health and social care services can reflect the views of users. Providing an overview of the literature on user involvement, the book looks at the policy and professional context within which user involvement is undertaken, in particular user involvement in pallative care. The authors discuss two key...User involvement has become an important part of health policy initiatives during the last decade, but how realistic is the concept and do all user... |
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Compassionate Cities: Public Health and End-Of-Life Care
ISBN: 9780415367721 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Once it was difficult to see end of life care beyond conventional medical intervention, but hospice and palliative care introduced a more holistic approach, providing quality of life for the dying and their families. This ground-breaking work takes end-of-life care beyond these palliative boundaries, describing a public health vision that involves whole communities adopting a compassionate approach to dying, death and loss. Written by a leading academic in the field of death and bereavement, this text outlines the historical, political and conceptual basis of compassionate cities,... Once it was difficult to see end of life care beyond conventional medical intervention, but hospice and palliative care introduced a more holistic ... |
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Compassionate Cities
ISBN: 9780415367738 / Angielski / Miękka / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Imagine if whole communities - not simply a community's direct health services - really cared about its member's health and social well-being. Imagine if that care extended to the dying, death and losses experienced by everyone in that community. Imagine if "death" was an idea that went beyond the "death of the body" and came to include the deaths of identity and belonging as these endings apply to people living with dementia or the aftermath of sexual abuse, dispossession of indigenous or refugee peoples. Such community and policy frameworks partly do exist in the World Health Organization's...
Imagine if whole communities - not simply a community's direct health services - really cared about its member's health and social well-being. Imagine...
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222,99 zł |
Palliative Care: A Practical Guide for the Health Professional : Finding Meaning and Purpose in Life and Death
ISBN: 9780443103803 / Angielski / Miękka / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book encourages health professionals to reconceptualise their practice in the light of the fact that their patients are deteriorating and dying, supporting them in their dichotomous role which involves affirming that person's life whilst acknowledging that that life is ending. Professionals are encouraged to think laterally, to be creative in their use of their core skills, and to use their life skills and experience to change the focus of their interventions. By making these changes, those involved with caring for the dying will be able to address issues related to burnout and feeling...
This book encourages health professionals to reconceptualise their practice in the light of the fact that their patients are deteriorating and dying, ...
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181,49 zł |
Handbook of Advanced Cancer Care
ISBN: 9780521010436 / Angielski / Miękka / 534 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Currently, there is no comprehensive source of information available to non-specialist physicians and nurses providing end-of-life care for advanced cancer patients at a level between specialist oncology texts and nursing texts. Two eminent physicians from one of the world's foremost cancer centers have drawn together a remarkable team to provide a handbook which covers the full range of problems non-specialists will encounter. This highly accessible text covers general principles in oncology, each of the primary tumors, and management of specific symptoms and syndromes.
Currently, there is no comprehensive source of information available to non-specialist physicians and nurses providing end-of-life care for advanced c...
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665,98 zł |
The Hospice Choice: In Pursuit of a Peaceful Death
ISBN: 9780684822693 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hospice is the primary system to provide care for the terminally ill and their families. Warm, compassionate, and absolutely practical, this definitive resource from the National Hospice Organization will answer all your questions about hospice care and will show you how to make this comprehensive and flexible system work for you and your family.
The Hospice Choice illustrates the gamut of situations dying people and their families may face and suggests ways to manage them. Throughout is information on the broad range of services hospice can provide:
Hospice is the primary system to provide care for the terminally ill and their families. Warm, compassionate, and absolutely practical, this definitiv...
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85,89 zł |
Cultural Issues in End-Of-Life Decision Making
ISBN: 9780761912170 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The difficult decisions that face dying individuals, their families and the professionals that help them at the end of their life are impacted by cultural background, religious upbringing, education and experience.'
The difficult decisions that face dying individuals, their families and the professionals that help them at the end of their life are impacted by cult...
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End of Life Nursing Care
ISBN: 9780763714215 / Angielski / Miękka / 489 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This overview takes a multidisciplinary perspective, integrating history, sociology, psychology, pathophysiology, philosophy, and law. It covers theoretical foundations, holistic models, the grief process and responses to loss, ethical and legal considerations, patient centered care, and management
This overview takes a multidisciplinary perspective, integrating history, sociology, psychology, pathophysiology, philosophy, and law. It covers theor...
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287,22 zł |
Ethics in Hospice Care : Challenges to Hospice Values in a Changing Health Care Environment
ISBN: 9780789003287 / Angielski / Twarda / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ethics in Hospice Care: Challenges to Hospice Values in a Changing Health Care Environment explores the pressures and challenges facing hospice and aims to produce new studies and educational materials on hospice ethics to help professionals in the field. Many of the tensions felt by caregivers and practitioners in hospice stem from uncertainty about the ethical mission of hospice and the ethical dilemmas arising in practice. This volume, a result of The Hastings Center and the Hospice Foundation of America s project on Ethical and Policy Issues in Hospice Care, addresses these issues in a...
Ethics in Hospice Care: Challenges to Hospice Values in a Changing Health Care Environment explores the pressures and challenges facing hospice and ai...
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The Hospice Heritage: Celebrating Our Future
ISBN: 9780789008374 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through The Hospice Heritage: Celebrating Our Future, physicians, nurses, social workers, and clergy will find unique examples to give patients the attention, care, and understanding they need at that time in their life. Since 80 of people who die do so without the support of a hospice program, this important book offers approaches designed to expand access to hospice and provide a solid foundation of treatment for patients with cancer and non-cancer diagnoses. Written by experts in the field, The Hospice Heritage will help you care for those patients whose life span is...
Through The Hospice Heritage: Celebrating Our Future, physicians, nurses, social workers, and clergy will find unique examples to give patients the at...
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388,97 zł |
The Hospice Heritage: Celebrating Our Future
ISBN: 9780789008473 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through The Hospice Heritage: Celebrating Our Future, physicians, nurses, social workers, and clergy will find unique examples to give patients the attention, care, and understanding they need at that time in their life. Since 80 of people who die do so without the support of a hospice program, this important book offers approaches designed to expand access to hospice and provide a solid foundation of treatment for patients with cancer and non-cancer diagnoses. Written by experts in the field, The Hospice Heritage will help you care for those patients whose life span is...
Through The Hospice Heritage: Celebrating Our Future, physicians, nurses, social workers, and clergy will find unique examples to give patients the at...
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165,93 zł |
Evidence Based Symptom Control in Palliative Care: Systemic Reviews and Validated Clinical Practice Guidelines for 15 Common Problems in Patients with
ISBN: 9780789010131 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written for clinicians caring for patients with advanced irreversible diseases who wish to improve quality of life for patients and families, and lessen their physical and emotional pain. Contributions from the editors and other pharmacists cover symptom control approaches for anorexia and cachexia,
Written for clinicians caring for patients with advanced irreversible diseases who wish to improve quality of life for patients and families, and less...
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295,61 zł |
Evidence Based Symptom Control in Palliative Care: Systemic Reviews and Validated Clinical Practice Guidelines for 15 Common Problems in Patients with
ISBN: 9780789010148 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Make your patients'final days as comfortable as possible There are few situations more challenging and emotionally taxing to a medical professional than the care of the terminally ill. Much has been learned in recent years about symptom control that can profoundly improve the quality of life in a patient's final days. Evidence Based Symptom Control in Palliative Care: Systemic Reviews and Validated Clinical Practice Guidelines for 15 Common Problems in Patients with Life Limiting Disease provides you with symptom control approaches that will help meet patients'last wishes, improve the...
Make your patients'final days as comfortable as possible There are few situations more challenging and emotionally taxing to a medical professional t...
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186,68 zł |