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Provides advice, case studies, a variety of assessment tools, instructional guidelines, and practical exercises to educate nursing home staff about care of the dying. A multidisciplinary focus outlines important roles for staff members in providing competent end-of-life care.
Improving Nursing Home Care of the Dying
A Training Manual for Nursing Home Staff
$192.67
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
28 April 2003
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Summary
With the support of the Soros Foundation Open Society Institute’s “Project Death in America”, the authors have developed an innovative educational programme to help nursing home staff provide competent and compassionate end-of-life care. The book examines eight topics in end-of-life and palliative care in a long-term care setting. Topics include: recognizing the final phase of life; grief and loss; advance care planning; choices about eating and drinking; pain management; emotional and spiritual care; and caring for the caregivers.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780826119254 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0826119255 |
| Author: | Martha L. Henderson, Laura C. Hanson, Kimberly S. Reynolds |
| Publisher: | Springer Publishing Co Inc |
| Imprint: | Springer Publishing Co Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 28 April 2003 |
| Weight: | 313g |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 127mm x 203mm |
| Series: | Springer |
A-Format111 × 178 mm
B-Format130 × 198 mm
127 × 203 mm
C-Format153 × 234 mm
A4210 × 297 mm
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