Palliative Care Nursing: Caring for Suffering Patients

Awarded first place in the 2022 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Palliative Care and Hospice category.Preparing Nurses to Care for the Seriously Ill and their FamiliesPalliative Care Nursing: Caring for Suffering Patients continues to explore the concept of suffering as it relates to nursing practice in an updated new edition. This text helps practicing nurses and students define and recognize various aspects of suffering across the lifespan and within various patient populations, while providing guidance in alleviating suffering. In addition, the authors discuss ways nurses that witness suffering can optimize their own coping skills and facilitate personal growth. The Second Edition aligns with the recently updated ELNEC and AACN competencies and features three new chapters discussing advance care planning, palliative care for those with serious illnesses, and strategies for having difficult conversations with patients and families.How do we identify a patient who is suffering? How do we assess whether our patient (and/or their family) is coping with the event? What can we do to alleviate patient suffering? How can we convey the extent of the suffering to the other members of the healthcare team and advocate excellent palliative care for our patients? Palliative Care Nursing: Caring for Suffering Patients, Second Edition answers these questions and more, making it an indispensable resource for nursing students and nurses employed in a variety of health care settings. Updated to align with the recently revised ELNEC and AACN competenciesFeatures features three NEW chapters discussing advance care planning, palliative care for those with serious illnesses, and strategies for having difficult conversations with patients and familiesExplores physical, psychological, sociocultural, developmental, and spiritual sufferingIncludes new discussions on compassion fatigue and burnout, options for effective management of chronic pain, logotherapy, a new assessment of patient comfort, and moreRich in case studies, exercises, pictures, and reflections on nursing practice and life experiences This text is ideal for gerontology, palliative care nursing courses, capstone courses, and undergraduate nursing courses dealing with end of life issues, psychology, grieving, and palliative care. (c) 2023 400 pages