Caring for the Dying Patient and the Family

1. Front Matter

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2. Looking at death and dying

   • Janet Moscrop

   Pages 1-7

3. The importance of communications with the patient, family and professional carers

   • Elizabeth Faulkner

   Pages 8-19

4. Nursing assessment

   • Jennifer Clark, Mary McDermott

   Pages 20-26

5. Nursing care in symptom management

   • Jennifer Clark, Sister Philomena

   Pages 27-57

6. The problems of pain for the dying patient

   • Giovambattista Zeppetella, Karen Slatcher

   Pages 58-83

7. The last hours of life

   • Jennifer Clark, Sister Jacinta

   Pages 84-103

8. The role of the doctor

   • Louis Heyse-Moore

   Pages 104-114

9. Meeting social needs — the role of the social worker

   • Rosemary Hurdman

   Pages 115-124

10. The value of physiotherapy

    • Karen Baldry

    Pages 125-131

11. Care of the dying child and the family

    • Joan Ramsay, Sally Unsworth

    Pages 132-155

12. Care of the dying patient with AIDS

    • Christopher Quinn, Sharon Quinn

    Pages 156-171

13. Meeting the needs of staff

    • Sister Helena McGilly, Janet Moscrop

    Pages 172-177

14. Religious beliefs and cultural issues

    • Tom O’Connor, Dennis Donald, David Morrell

    Pages 178-187

15. Ethical aspects

    • Joy Robbins

    Pages 188-199

16. Use of a day centre

    • Janet Nevitt, Jane Eisenhaur

    Pages 200-207

17. Care in the home

    • Lucinda Langford

    Pages 208-222

18. Nursing care of the dying patient in hospital

    • Jennifer Ellwood

    Pages 223-242

19. Care in a hospice

    • Helena McGilly, Florence Haines

    Pages 243-250

20. The place of complementary therapies

    • Alison Cotterill, Jacqueline Ougham, Georgina Nunn

    Pages 251-262

This third edition of a popular textbook has been completely revised by the joint editors, Janet Moscrop and Joy Robbins. As in previous editions, the focus is on the person dying at home, in residential care or in hospital and the emphasis is on teamwork in caring for the individual and their relatives and friends. Experts in all aspects of care have contributed to this complete revision of the previous text and each chapter is written by a different member of the multiprofessional team. The chapter on the terminal care of people suffering from AIDS has been enlarged and consideration is also given to care of those in the term­ inal stages of other non-malignant diseases. Other new material includes chapters on complementary therapy, the use of the day centre, the value of volunteers, diversional therapy and respite care. The chapter on bereavement covers many aspects of grief and loss and there is a sensitive approach to the need for supporting staff in this spe­ cialized work. Consideration is also given to the needs of dying and griev­ ing people from differing ethnic backgrounds with varying cultural expectations in a pluralistic society. The third edition offers a broad overview of the support given to the dying person and the carers by medical and nursing staff, physiothera­ pists, pharmacists, social workers, the chaplaincy and members of the pastoral care team. Students of all these disciplines should find this book both readable and informative.

• AIDS
• assessment
• care
• child
• communication
• death
• family
• hospital
• management
• pain
• physiotherapy
• social work
• therapy

• St Joseph’s Hospice, London, UK

  Joy Robbins, Janet Moscrop

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