End-of-Life Care: Clinical Practice Guidelines

by Kim K. Kuebler, Patricia Gauntlett Beare, Debra E. Heidrich

Here are the guidelines and tools that the advanced practice nurse needs to provide comprehensive end-of-life care. A review of the end-stage disease processes provide the background for understanding the multiple symptoms experienced by individuals at the end of life. Clinical practice guidelines offer in-depth discussions of the pathophysiology of 17 different symptoms, assessment data to collect when evaluating and monitoring these symptoms, interventions for specific symptom management,and suggestions for patient and family teaching. In addition, a unit in the book is devoted is discussions of psychosocial issues, complementary therapies, and grief and grieving.

492 pages, Paperback

First published December 15, 2001

Reviews

[Abigail Anderson]

Provides a good overview of end of life cares and pathophysiology of different disease processes, how hospice and palliative care operate (different from every other field of medicine). Helped me as a new hospice nurse but would be useful for really anyone to read. I really liked the sections on symptom management as well.