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• Title:Nursing care at the end of life : palliative care for patients and families / Joyce V. Zerwekh.
  
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• Author/Creator:Zerwekh, Joyce V. (Joyce Valborg)
  
• Published/Created:Philadelphia, PA : F.A. Davis Co., ©2006.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WY152 .Z47 2006
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WY152 .Z47 2006
    
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  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Palliative treatment.
  Nursing.
  Terminal care--Psychological aspects.
  Terminally ill--Family relationships.
  
• Medical Subjects: Hospice Care.
  Nursing Care.
  Palliative Care.
  Terminally Ill.
  
• Description:xviii, 453 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780803611283 (pbk.)
  0803611285 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Ch. 1. end of life and end-of-life caregiving
  Ch. 2. Hospice and palliative care
  Ch. 3. Strategies to stay healthy
  Ch. 4. Collaborating with an interdisciplinary team
  Ch. 5. Understanding the dying experience
  Ch. 6. Connecting and caring presence
  Ch. 7. Grief and mourning
  Ch. 8. Cross-cultural competency at the end of life
  Ch. 9. Ethical issues at the end of life
  Ch. 10. Spiritual caring
  Ch. 11. Understanding and strengthening families
  Ch. 12. Children facing death
  Ch. 13. Understanding and anticipating the course of terminal disease
  Ch. 14. Comforting and the essentials of pain relief at the end of life
  Ch. 15. Medicating for pain at the end of life
  Ch. 16. Management of physical nonpain symptoms
  Ch. 17. Caring in different settings when death is imminent.