Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing » (3rd Edition)

Betty R. Ferrell, PhD, RN, FAAN, Research Scientist, Department of Nursing Education and Research, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA

Nessa Coyle, PhD, APRN, FAAN, Pain and Palliative Care Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Now in its third edition, this landmark textbook has become the key resource for all nurses working in the field of palliative care. Edited by renowned nursing experts Betty Ferrell and Nessa Coyle and written by a dynamic team of internationally known authorities in nursing and palliative medicine, the book contains 78 chapters which cover the gamut of the palliative nursing world. The volume's scope is broad to incorporate principles of care from the time of the initial diagnosis of a terminal disease to the end of a patient's life and beyond.

This text is distinctively developed to highlight the nurse's vital role as part of an integrated palliative care team. Various care settings are discussed including the hospital, ICU, home care, and hospice settings. While the book does provide some information on disease and pathophysiology when appropriate, the chapters focus on the practical aspects of nursing care, including symptom assessment, patient teaching, family support, psychosocial aspects of palliation, and spiritual care. All of the chapters have been completely updated and reorganized to incorporate new research and emerging models of care. This updated volume includes over 10 new chapters, including an extensively update section on international models of palliative care. In addition, there are many new ethics discussions covering a range of topics from pediatric palliative care to the withdrawal of life sustaining treatment. The text is authoritative and fully evidence-based, without ever losing sight of the humanity and sensitivity necessary in palliative nursing.

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Reviewer:Darrell A Owens, DNP, ARNP(University of Washington School of Nursing)
Description:This is a reference for nurses practicing palliative nursing full time, as well as for those whose practice includes aspects of palliative care. It covers a multitude of topics, including pain and physical symptom management, psychosocial support, spiritual care, special populations, pediatrics, and international models of palliative care. This edition is more comprehensive than the second edition, published in 2006.
Purpose:The third edition comes at a time when palliative nursing has come of age. The objective of the book is to strengthen nurses, individually and collectively, so that they can provide compassionate and competent palliative care. While the objectives of the book are rather grand, they are worthy, and this book, like the previous editions, fulfills them.
Audience:The book is written for a broad audience, ranging from nursing students to advanced practice nurses, and includes useful information for those in other disciplines, such as chaplains, social workers, and psychologist or counselors. The editors, both experts in the field, have done an exceptional job of recruiting chapter authors who are specialists in palliative nursing.
Features:The section addressing symptom assessment and management is thorough and comprehensive, covering all of the most common symptoms of patients in palliative care. Other sections cover psychosocial support, spiritual care, and issues specific to nurses in palliative care. The section on spiritual care is particularly well written, and provides a comprehensive overview of spiritual care issues, including spiritual assessment. Many chapters include tables that nicely summarize large volumes of detailed information.
Assessment:This is considered one of the leading palliative care reference books. Although written specifically for nurses, the comprehensive and interdisciplinary nature of the book makes it a useful reference in a variety of disciplines. Additional chapters in the third edition cover insomnia, withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, caring for those with chronic illness, palliative care in psychiatric illness, and cancer survivorship, all of which justify replacing the second edition of this exceptional resource.

Forewords
Dame Cicely Saunders, Florence Wald, and Jeanne Quint Benoliel

Preface

Part I: General Principles
1. Introduction to Palliative Care Nursing Care
Nessa Coyle
2. Hospice Care in the 21st Century: A Model for Quality End-of-Life Care
Kathleen A. Egan City and Mary J. Labyak
3. Hospital-Based Palliative Care
Marie Bakitas, Margaret Firer Bishop and Paula A. Caron
4. Principles of Patient and Family Assessment
Elaine Glass, Douglas Cluxton, and Patrice Rancour
5. Communication in Palliative Care: An Essential Competency for Nurses
Constance M. Dahlin

Part II: Symptom Assessment and Management
6. Pain Assessment
Regina M. Fink and Rose M. Gates
7. Pain at the End of Life
Judith A. Paice
8. Fatigue
Paula R. Anderson, Grace E. Dean and Melany A. Piech
9. Anorexia and Cachexia
Dorthy Wholihan and Charles Kemp
10. Nausea and Vomiting
Cynthia King and Dana Tarcutu
11. Dysphagia, Xerostomia, and Hiccups
Constance M. Dahlin, Audrey Kurash Cohen, and Tessa Goldsmith
12 . Bowel Management: Constipation, Diarrhea, Obstruction, and Ascites
Denice Caraccia Economou
13. Hydration, Thirst, and Nutrition
Michelle Schaffner Gabriel, Pam Kedziera, and Nessa Coyle
14. Dyspnea, Death Rattle, and Cough
Deborah Dudgeon
15. Urinary Tract Disorders
Mikel Gray and Terran Simms
16. Lymphedema Management
Mei Fu and Jean K. Smith
17A. Skin Disorders: Pressure Ulcers-Assessment and Management
Barbara M. Bates-Jensen
17B. Skin Disorders: Malignant Wounds, Fistulas, and Stomas
Susie Seaman and Barbara M. Bates-Jensen
18. Pruritus, Fever, and Sweats
Phillip Larkin
19 . Neurological Disturbances
Judith A. Paice
20. Anxiety and Depression
Jeannie V. Pasacreta, Pamela A. Minarik, Leslie Nield-Anderson
21. Delirium, Confusion, and Agitation
Debra E. Heidrich and Nancy English
22. Insomnia
Laura Bourdeanu, Marjorie Hein, and Pamela R. Tryon
23. Sexuality
Marianne Matzo
24. Clinical Interventions, Economic Outcomes, and Palliative Care
Patrick J. Coyne, Thomas J. Smith and Laurel J. Lyckholm
25. Urgent Syndromes at the End of Life
Barton T. Bobb
26. Sedation for Refractory Symptoms and Terminal Weaning
Patti Knight, Laura A. Espinosa
27. Complementary and Alternative Therapies in Palliative Care
Kate Kravits and Susan Berenson
28. Withdrawal of Life Sustaining Treatment
Margaret Campbell, Linda Gorman, and Peggy Kalowes

Part III: The Meaning of Hope in the Dying
29. The Meaning of Hope in the Dying
Mary Ersek and Valerie T. Cotter
30. Bereavement
Inge B. Corless
31. Supporting Families in Palliative Care
Betty Davies and Rose Steele
32. Planning for the Actual Death
Patricia Berry and Julie Griffie

Part IV: Spiritual Care
33. Spiritual Assessment Elizabeth Johnston Taylor
34. Spiritual Care Interventions
Rev. Pamela Baird
35. Meaning in Illness
Tami Borneman and Katherine Brown-Saltzman

Part V: Special Patient Populations
36. Caring for those with Chronic Illness Terri Maxwell
37. Cultural Considerations in Palliative Care
Polly Mazanec and Joan T. Panke
38. Elderly Patients
Susan Derby, Sean O'Mahony, and Roma Tikoo
39. Poor, Homeless, and Underserved Populations
Anne Hughes
40. Palliative Care in Psychiatric Illness
Betty Morgan
41. Patients with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome: Caring from Diagnosis to Long Term Survival or Death
Deborah Witt Sherman and Carl A. Kirton
42. Caring for the Drug-Addicted Patient at the End of Life
Kenneth L. Kirsh, Peggy Compton, and Steven D. Passik
43. Cancer Survivorship
Mary McCabe and Nancy Hoolihan

Part VI: End-of-Life Care Across Settings
44. Improving the Quality of Care Across All Settings Marilyn Bookbinder
45. Long-Term Care
Sarah A. Wilson
46. Home Care
Paula Milone-Nuzzo, Ruth McCorkle, and Elizabeth Ercolano
47. The Intensive Care Unit
Jennifer McAdam and Kathleen Puntillo
48. The Outpatient Setting
Jeanne Robison and Anne R. Du Pen
49. Rehabilitation and Palliative Care
Kathleen Michael and Donna Wilson
50. The Emergency Department
Garrett Chan, Margaret Campbell, and Robert Zalenski
51. The Role of Nursing in Caring for Patients Undergoing Surgery for Advanced Disease
Betty R. Ferrell, Gloria Juarez, and Tami Borneman
52. Palliative Chemotherapy and Clinical Trials in Advanced Cancer: The Nurse's Role
Virginia Sun

Part VII: Pediatric Palliative Care
53. Symptom Management in Pediatric Palliative Care
Melody Brown Hellsten and Glen Medellin
54. Pediatric Care: The Hospice Perspective
Lizabeth H. Sumner
55. Pediatric Care: Transitioning Goals of Care in the Emergency Department, Intensive Care Unit, and in Between
Marcia Levetown, Melody Hellsten and Barbara Jones
56. End-of-life Decision Making in Pediatric Oncology
Pamela S. Hinds, Linda Oakes, and Wayne L. Furman
57. Palliative Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Carole Kenner and Marina Boykova
58. Grief and Bereavement in Pediatric Palliative Care
Betty Davies, Rana Limbo and Juhye Jin
59. Pediatric Pain: Knowing the Child Before You
Mary Layman Goldstein and Mayuko Sakae

Part VIII: Special Issues for the Nurse in End-of-Life Care
60. The Advanced Practice Nurse Jay Horton and Roseanne Indelirato
61. The Experience of the Nurse in End-of-Life Care in the 21st Century: Mentoring the Next Generation
Mary L. S. Vachon and Jayne Huggard
62. Ethical Considerations
Maryjo Prince Paul and Barbara Daly
63. Public Policy and End-of-Life Care: The Nurse's Role
Colleen Scanlon
64. Palliative Care and Requests for Assistance in Dying
Deborah L. Volker
65. Nursing Education
Denice Sheehan and Pam Malloy
66. Nursing Research
Betty Ferrell, Marcia Grant and Virginia Sun
67. Teamwork in Palliative Care
Shirley Otis-Green and Iris Cohen Fineburg

Part IX: International Models of Palliative Care
68. International Models of Palliative Care Reflecting Various Stages of National Development Nessa Coyle
69. Canada
Dennie Hycha and Lynn Whitten
70. Palliative Care in Australia and New Zealand
Margaret O'Connor and Peter L Hudson
71. Palliative Care in the United Kingdom Public Policy and End-of-Life Care: The Nurse's Role
Penny Hansford
72. Palliative Care in Europe
Marianne Jensen Hjermstad and Stein Kaasa
73.Palliative Care in Situations of Conflict
Nathan Cherny and Ora Rosengarten
74. Palliative Care in South America
Marta Junin
75. Palliative Care in Africa
Faith N. Mwangi-Powel, Henry Ddungu, Julia Downing, Fatia Kiyange, Richard A. Powell, and Abby Baguma
76. Palliative Care in Japan
Sayaka Takenouchi and Keiko Tamura
77. Palliative Care in South Korea
Hyun Sook Kim and Boon Han Kim

Part X: Conclusion: A Good Death
78. Understanding a Good Death Betty Ferrell
Appendix: Palliative Care Resource List
Rose Virani