End-of-life nursing care : a guide for best practice /
Joanna De Souza and Annie Pettifer
- 1st ed.
- Los Angeles, CA : SAGE, 2013
- xii, 203 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
End-of-life care: a historical perspective -- Assessing holistic needs -- Responding to questions about the end of life -- Making difficult decisions using ethical and legal frameworks -- Calling in the palliative care team -- Managing physical symptoms -- Discharging patients approaching the end of life -- Knowing when a patient is in the last days of life -- Care after death -- Sudden or unexpected death -- Supporting family and friends -- Resolving my own feelings after a patient has died