Palliative care nursing: quality care to the end of life

Section 1: Understanding palliative care

1: Palliative care nursing / Anne M. Wilkinson, Deborah Witt Sherman, Tonie Metheny, and Marianne Matzo

2: Palliative care: responsive to the need for healthcare reform in the United States / Deborah Witt Sherman and Marilyn Bookbinder

3: Interprofessional collaboration / Deborah Witt Sherman and Anne M. Wilkinson

4: Ethical aspects of palliative care / Anita J. Tarzian

5: Legal aspect of palliative care and advance care planning / Kathleen O. Perrin

Section 2: Caring for the whole person and his or her family

6: Culture and spirituality as domains of quality palliative care / Deborah Witt Sherman and David C. Free

7: Intimacy and sexual health / Marianne Matzo

8: Family caregivers / Deborah Witt Sherman

9: Communicating with seriously ill and dying patients, their families, and their healthcare practitioners / Kathleen O. Perrin

10: Health promotion and rehabilitation in palliative care / John P. Rosenberg and Katherine Hammill

11: Loss, grief, and bereavement / Mertie L. Potter and Brendan P. Wynee

12: Holistic integrative therapies in palliative care / Carla Mariano

Section 3: Physical health: life-threatening diseases

13: Cancer / Maritza C. Alencar

14: End-stage heart disease / Lucie B. Dlugasch

15: Chronic lung disease / Mary M. Brennan

16: Neurological disorders / Melody Hope Gallamore

17: End-stage renal disease / Debra J. Hain

18: End-stage liver disease / Lissi Hansen and Anna Sasaki

19: Palliative care and HIV/AIDS / Patrick Kenny, Carl A. Kirton, Anna Krakowski and Deborah Witt Sherman

Section 4: Physical health: symptom management

20: Pain: assessment and treatment using a multimodal approach / Rose Anne Indelicatio and Mary Layman-Goldstein

21: Dyspnea / Cynthia Reno Balkstra

22: Anxiety, depression, and delirium / Nicole G. Loving and Constance M. Dahlin

23: Postraumatic stress disorder and end-of-life care / Kristen H. Sorocco and Kristi L. Bratkovich

24: Gastrointestinal symptoms / Raymond R. Blush III

25: Fatigue / Marianne Matzo

26: Minimizing skin alterations / Elizabeth A. Ayello and R. Gary Sibbald

27: Peri-death nursing care / Marianne Matzo and Jane A. Hill.

Introduction to palliative care / Marianne Matzo, Tonie Metheny

Palliative care : responsive to the need for health care reform in America / Deborah Witt Sherman, Marilyn Bookbinder, Marlene McHugh

Ethical aspects of palliative care / Anita J. Tarzian, Judith Kennedy Schwartz

Legal aspects of palliative care and advance care planning / Kathleen Ouimet Perrin

Culture and spirituality as domains of palliative care / Deborah Witt Sherman, David Free

Sexual health and intimacy / Marianne Matzo

Family caregivers / Deborah Witt Sherman, JooYoung Cheon, Deborah Witt Sherman

Communicating with seriously ill and dying patients, their families, and their health care providers / Kathleen Ouimet Perrin

Health promotion and rehabilitation in palliative care / John P. Rosenberg, Kathrine Hammill

Loss, suffering, grief, and bereavement / Mertie L. Potter, Brendan Wynne

Holistic integrative therapies / Carla Mariano

Cancer / Amy E. Guthrie

End stage heart disease / Judith B. Dyne

Chronic lung disease / Mary Brennan

Dementia neurodegenerative illness : stroke, coma, and brain death / Christine Kovach, Sheila Reynolds

End stage renal disease / Lynn R. Noland

End stage liver disease / Robert B. Davis

HIV/AIDS / Carl Kirton, Anna Krakowski, Deborah Witt Sherman

Pain / Nessa Coyle, Mary Layman-Goldstein, Leslie Hunter-Johnson

Dyspnea / Cindy R. Balkstra

Anxiety, depression, and delirium / Constance M. Dahlin

PTSD / Kristin Sorocco, Kristi Bratkovich, JoAnne Whalen

Gastrointestinal symptoms / Raymond R. Blush III, Pamala D. Larsen

Fatigue / Marianne Matzo, Cameron Soltani

Skin alterations / Elizabeth Ayello, R. Gary Sibbald, Kevin Y. Woo, Laurie Goodman

Peri-death nursing care / Marianne Matzo, Jane A. Hill.