Palliative Care Nursing quality Care to the End of LIfe

This award-winning text provides the essential information to achieve best-practices in palliative care nursing. It offers a blend of holistic and humanistic caring coupled with aggressive management of pain and symptoms associated with advanced disease. The book is organized around the 15 competencies in palliative care developed by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, with each chapter outlining specific skills needed to achieve each competency. This new edition features a new chapter on professional organizations and certification in palliative care nursing. It is an essential resource for both nursing students and practitioners.GNP CS is the author of 'Palliative Care Nursing quality Care to the End of LIfe', published 2005 under ISBN 9780826157942 and ISBN 0826157947.