End-of-Life Nursing Care
- Annie Pettifer - Coventry University, UK
- Joanna de Souza - King's College London, UK
Students and newly-qualified staff make up much of the workforce delivering end-of-life care but, because end-of-life care can be both technically challenging and emotionally demanding, it is an aspect of nursing that can cause considerable anxiety.
This very accessible, straightforward book helps to allay those concerns and enables pre-registration students to prepare confidently for the challenges they will face when they are caring for dying patients and supporting their families. Each chapter is based on a different and realistic scenario - reflecting a range of circumstances - to demonstrate the essential generic knowledge and skills they need to develop, and draws out the important practical and theoretical issues students should consider and address if patients and their families are to receive the best possible care.
Written by two experienced palliative care lecturer/practitioners, and mapping closely to the NMC's 2010 domains, the book is tailored to the needs of student nurses working with adult patients. It will explore the importance of their role in end-of-life care and how this interfaces with the roles of other multidisciplinary professionals involved in the care of their patients. It will also be helpful to students of other health care professions and support newly-qualified healthcare professionals working in adult health.
I thought this book was a great resource. Although used by level 3 learners it provide accurate information and was very easy to read.
excellent text - adopted thank you
This book enables the reader to understand the issues that are important when looking after a patient who is nearing the end of their life.
Comprehensive book about end-of-life care
using case studies to demonstrate how the theory relates to practice is a powerful way to enhance learning.
Excellent book, which covers all the impoartant aspects in this field. Good for pre & post reg.
A very welcome and useful contribution to the field. Accesible and extremely pertinent illustrations.
this is an excellant textbook which will be a useful resource for students whom are exploring this area of care both in an academic and clinical sense.
Excellent resource for my students, appropriate to their educational level, I appreciate it.
This is an excellent resource for the student nurse to use. It particularly deals with end of life nursing in a sensitive and empathetic way. The reflective questions sections are really well designed to stimulate further study of this difficualt aspect of nursing care.
As an adjunct to the main nursing textbooks, this resource will be an immense support to the student and qualified nurse alike.
Sage College Publishing
