TAILIEUCHUNG - To Comfort Always: A Nurse’s Guide to End-of-Life Care

Thirty years ago when I was a novice home care nurse, I was assigned to Margaret, a 70-year-old woman with terminal liver cancer. She lived with her husband and a disabled son. For five months, I struggled in vain to make her comfortable, to control her pain, to relieve her physical symptoms. I watched her diminish in front of me, her skin breaking down, her eyes glazed with pain, and I felt a growing helplessness. Looking back, I know she sensed my helplessness. I remember walking into her bedroom one day with dread. She was comfortable only in the fetal position on her left side. It was. | Linda Norlander Comfort Always Linda Norlander RN BSN MS COmfort Always Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing Sigma Theta Tau International Acquisitions Editor Cynthia Saver RN MS Project Editor Carla Hall Copy Editor Kevin Kent Proofreader Jackie Tirey Cover Design by Gary Adair Interior Design and Page Composition by Gary Adair Printed in the United States of America Printing and Binding by Printing Partners Indianapolis Indiana USA Copyright 2008 by Sigma Theta Tau International All rights reserved. This book is protected by copyright. No part of it may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without written permission from the publisher. Sigma Theta Tau International 550 West North Street Indianapolis IN 46202 Visit our Web site at STTI books for more information on our books. ISBN-13 978-1-930538-73-3 ISBN-10 1-930538-73-1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Norlander Linda 1949- To comfort always a nurse s guide to end-of-life care Linda Norlander. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13 978-1-930538-73-3 ISBN-10 1-930538-73-1 1. Terminal care. 2. Nursing. 3. Geriatric nursing. I. Sigma Theta Tau International. II. Title. DNLM 1. Terminal Care--methods. 2. Nursing Care--methods. WY 152 N841t 2008 2009 616 .029--dc22 2008045865 First Printing .

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• Care Planning
• Pain Management
• Skilled Clinician
• Active Dying
• Ethical Issues
• BMC Geriatrics
• Advance care planning
• Home based primary care
• Substitute decision maker
• Do not resuscitate
• Do not hospitalize
• Delivery of health care
• Patient care planning
• Patient participation
• Game theory
• Goal oriented care
• Employee benefits
• Retirement planning
• Retirement plan design
• Employee’s retirement
• Long term care plans
• Qualified long term care services
• Health Care Management
• Introduction to Health Care Management
• Strategic Planning
• Outcomes Monitoring
• Healthcare Marketing
• Dependent care assistance plans
• Subsidized day care
• Discharge process
• Hospital to community
• Planning care for surgical patients
• Surgical patients
• Coordinated care
• Long term care homes
• Nursing homes
• Temporary respite
• End of life expenditure
• Long term care
• Geriatric care
• Healthcare planning
• Healthcare expenditures
• Centered Care
• Individual Planning
• Narrative Summary
• Addiction Recovery
• Mental Health
• BMC Cancer
• Respecting choices
• Thematically analysed
• Discussion towards final themes
• Quality of life
• Medical decision making
• Despite progress
• Healthcare professionals
• BMC Women's Health
• Family planning counselling
• HIV positive women
• Antenatal care
• Health system
• BMC Anesthesiology
• End of life care
• Intensive care units
• Palliative care
• Care manager
• Heart failure
• Cardiovascular disease
• Annual medical costs
• Health benefit plan
• Managed health care
• Prospective pricing
• Planning Incorporation
• Policy and Management
• Medical Devices
• Care Sector in Benin
• Global Health
• Non Communicable Diseases
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• báo cáo sinh học
• công trình nghiên cứu về sinh học
• tài liệu về sinh học
• cách trình bày báo cáo
• Health Care
• Tax Saving
• Self Employed
• Investment Opportunities
• Organizational behavior
• Management thinking
• Quality improvement basics
• Supportive care
• Unmet needs
• Rising cancer incidence
• Survival mean
• Cancer survivors
• Home healthcare
• Acute healthcare utilization
• End of life