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Terminal illness a guide to nursing care

Charles Kemp 1944-

Philadelphia Lippincott c1999

Available at EE - Escola de Enfermagem    (610.73 K32t 2.ed. )(GetIt)

  • Title:
    Terminal illness a guide to nursing care
  • Author: Charles Kemp 1944-
  • Subjects: Terminal care; Nursing; CUIDADOS DE ENFERMAGEM; CUIDADOS A DOENTES TERMINAIS; Terminal Care -- methods; Nursing Care -- methods; Palliative Care -- methods
  • Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Description: Psychosocial care. Hospice and palliative care -- Psychosocial needs, problems, and interventions: the individual -- Psychosocial needs, problems, and interventions: the family -- Spiritual care: needs, problems, and interventions -- Spiritual care: faiths -- Sociocultural care -- Grief and bereavement care -- Ethics -- Stress and health care providers -- Pain and symptom management. Pain: principles of management -- Pain: assessment -- Management of pain -- Neurologic symptoms -- Respiratory and cardiovascular problems -- Skin complications -- Oral problems --Gastrointestinal problems -- Genitourinary problems -- Dehydration, fatigue, and sleep -- Oncologic emergencies and paraneoplastic syndromes -- Imminent death: the last 48 hours -- Advanced cancer: metastatic spread, common symptoms, and assessment. Major organs (Lung, pancreas, liver, brain): metastatic spread, symptoms, and assessment -- Female reproductive cancer (breast, ovarian, uterine): metastatic spread, common symptoms, and assessment -- Gastrointestinal cancer (colorectal, stomach, esophageal, and oral): metastatic spread, common symptoms, and assessment -- Urinary tract cancer (kidney, bladder and prostate): metastatic spread, common symptoms and assessment -- Blood/lymph and skin cancer: (non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, leukemia, multiple myeloma, melanoma): metastatic spread, common symptoms and assessment -- Management of other terminal illnesses. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome -- Degenerative
    neurologic disorders: multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and myasthenia gravis -- Alzehimers disease -- End-stage cardiovascular and pulmonary disease.
  • Publisher: Philadelphia Lippincott
  • Creation Date: c1999
  • Format: xiv, 353 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm..
  • Language: English

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