Full Description
Supports clinicians in providing the best possible care to patients with serious illness
The first comprehensive clinical guide for practicing palliative care and hospice clinicians, this evidence-based reference is designed to promote best practices in the delivery of safe, compassionate patient care. With a dual focus on evaluation and intervention, the book covers all aspects of providing palliative and hospice care for vulnerable and diverse populations. It provides an overview of common disease manifestations, typical trajectories of illness, symptom management, and recommendations for nursing care.
Written in easy-to-access outline format, the resource is organized by body system and includes common diagnoses encountered in palliative and hospice care. Individual diagnoses include a definition, incidence, etiology, pathophysiology, predisposing factors, subjective and objective data, diagnostic tests, differential diagnoses, complications, disease-modifying treatments, palliative interventions/symptom management, prognosis, and nursing interventions. The text provides referral guidelines for serious illness as well as general and disease-specific hospice care admission guidelines. Also included are comprehensive tables of diagnostic testing, disease-specific palliative and symptom management interventions, prognostic and screening tools, patient teaching and clinician resources, and guides to pain management and wound care. Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers.
Key Features:
Delivers current guidelines for management of symptoms associated with serious illness
Provides an in-depth review of common conditions seen in palliative and hospice care
Organized by body system for quick information retrieval
Delivers in-depth, evidence-based, and consistently organized disease-specific guidelines
Presents hospice and palliative care management guidelines
Contains reproducible patient/family education handouts
Reviews procedures commonly used in hospice and palliative practice
Contents
SECTION I: Introduction to Hospice and Palliative Care
Chapter 1: Introduction to Palliative Care
Chapter 2: Introduction to Hospice Care
Chapter 3: Prognostication and Prognostic Tools
Chapter 4: Establishing Goals of Care
SECTION II: Guidelines for End-Stage Cancer
Chapter 5: Cancers of the Head and Neck
Chapter 6: Cancers of the Chest and Abdomen
Chapter 7: Cancers of the Reproductive System
Chapter 8: Cancers of the Blood, Skin, and Bone
SECTION III: Non-Cancer Diagnoses
Chapter 9: Cardiac Disease
Chapter 10: Dementia
Chapter 11: Hepatic Disorders
Chapter 12: Immunologic Disorders
Chapter 13: Infectious Diseases
Chapter 14: Neurological Disorders
Chapter 15: Neurovascular Disorders
Chapter 16: Pulmonary Disorders
Chapter 17: Renal Disorders
APPENDICES
Appendix A: Prognostication Tools
Appendix B: Patient Teaching Resources
Appendix C: Clinician Resources
Appendix D: Pharmacological Interventions for Symptom Management in Advanced Disease
Appendix E: Pain Management
Appendix F: Pressure Wound Prevention and Assessment Pathway
