Find out all you need to know about providing high-quality care to patients with serious illnesses from the 2nd edition of Palliative Care: Core Skills and Clinical Competencies. Drs. Linda L. Emanuel and S. Lawrence Librach, leaders in the field, address the clinical, physical, psychological, cultural, and spiritual dimensions that are integral to the care of the whole patient. They give you a broad understanding of the core clinical skills and competencies needed to effectively approach patient assessment, care of special populations, symptom control, ethical issues, and more. Clearly written in a user-friendly, high-yield format with convenient online access, this resource is your ultimate guidebook to the burgeoning practice of palliative medicine.
Key Features
- Improve your pain management and symptom management skills with a better understanding of best practices in palliative care.
- Quickly review specific treatment protocols for both malignant and non-malignant illnesses, including HIV/AIDS, heart failure, renal failure, pulmonary disease, and neurodegenerative disease.
- Better understand and manage the common and unique challenges associated with delivering palliative care in various social settings, such as the ICU, hospice, and the home; and to diverse populations, such as children, elders, and vulnerable members of society.
Website Features
- Consult the book from any computer at home, in your office, or at any practice location.
- Instantly locate the answers to your clinical questions via a simple search query.
- Quickly find out more about any bibliographical citation by linking to its MEDLINE abstract.
Contents
Section 1 - Palliative Care: Core Skills
Part A - General Foundations
- CHAPTER 1 - Palliative Care
- CHAPTER 2 - Comprehensive Assessment
- CHAPTER 3 - Communication Skills
- CHAPTER 4 - Negotiating Goals of Care
- CHAPTER 5 - “Who Knows?”
Part B - Physical and Psychological Symptoms
- CHAPTER 6 - Multiple Symptoms and Multiple Illnesses
- CHAPTER 7 - Pain
- CHAPTER 8 - Nausea and Vomiting
- CHAPTER 9 - Part A
- CHAPTER 10 - Depression and Anxiety
- CHAPTER 11 - Delirium
- CHAPTER 12 - Constipation
- CHAPTER 13 - Urinary Incontinence
- CHAPTER 14 - Sexuality
- CHAPTER 15 - Dyspnea
- CHAPTER 16 - Supporting the Family in Palliative Care
- CHAPTER 17 - Local Wound Care for Palliative and Malignant Wounds
Part C - Personal Contexts
- CHAPTER 18 - Loss, Bereavement, and Adaptation
- CHAPTER 19 - Understanding and Respecting Cultural Differences
Part D - Specific Situations and Skill Sets
- CHAPTER 20 - Advance Care Planning
- CHAPTER 21 - Responding to Requests for Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
- CHAPTER 22 - Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Therapies
- CHAPTER 23 - Last Hours of Living
- CHAPTER 24 - Legal and Ethical Issues in the United States
Section 2 - Specific Types of Illness and Sites of Care
- CHAPTER 25 - Hematology/Oncology
- CHAPTER 26 - HIV/AIDS
- CHAPTER 27 - Heart Failure and Palliative Care
- CHAPTER 28 - Kidney Failure
- CHAPTER 29 - Gastrointestinal Malignancies
- CHAPTER 30 - Neurodegenerative Diseases
- CHAPTER 31 - Principles of Palliative Surgery
- CHAPTER 32 - Dementia
- CHAPTER 33 - Pulmonary Palliative Medicine
- CHAPTER 34 - Pediatric Palliative Care
- CHAPTER 35 - Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit
- CHAPTER 36 - Emergency Medicine and Palliative Care
- CHAPTER 37 - Veterans, Veterans Administration Health Care, and Palliative Care
Section 3 - Service Delivery
- CHAPTER 38 - The Interdisciplinary Team
- CHAPTER 39 - Palliative Care Nursing
- CHAPTER 40 - Social Work Practice in Palliative Care
- CHAPTER 41 - Spiritual Care
- CHAPTER 42 - Palliative Care in Long-Term Care Settings
- CHAPTER 43 - Home Palliative Care
- CHAPTER 44 - Integrating Palliative Care Guidelines into Clinical Practice
- CHAPTER 45 - Palliative Care Services and Programs
- CHAPTER 46 - The Role of the Physician in Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Section 4 - The Social Context
- CHAPTER 47 - The Economic Burden of End-of-Life Illness
- CHAPTER 48 - Addressing the Social Suffering Associated with Illness
- CHAPTER 49 - Palliative Care in Developing Countries
- CHAPTER 50 - The Therapeutic Implications of Dignity in Palliative Care
APPENDIX 1:
- Medication Tables
- Adverse Effects
- Websites/Online Drug Resources
APPENDIX 2:
- Resources for Palliative and End-of-Life Care
- Guidelines for the Use of this List
Product Details
- Paperback: 752 pages
- Publisher: Saunders; 2 edition (April 27, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1437716199
- ISBN-13: 978-1437716191
List Price: $69.95