Palliative and End-of-Life Care, An Issue of Nursing Clinics of North America

Download or read book Palliative and End-of-Life Care, An Issue of Nursing Clinics of North America written by James C. Pace and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Guest Editors have secured top experts in the area of palliative care to write current and clinically relevant articles. Articles in this issue are devoted to: Caring for LGBT Populations; Integrating Palliative Care into Primary Care; Pain Management in the Cognitively Impaired; Pain Management in the Client with Substance Use Disorder; Rituals at End of Life; Death Bed Phenomena; Family Care During End of Life; Palliative Wound Care; Pet-Assisted Therapy in Palliative Care; Palliative Sedation: State of the Science. Readers will come away with the updated information they need to provide state-of-the-art palliative care to their patients.