End-of-Life Nursing Care
- Annie Pettifer - Coventry University, UK
- Joanna de Souza - King's College London, UK
This very accessible, straightforward book helps to allay those concerns and enables pre-registration students to prepare confidently for the challenges they will face when they are caring for dying patients and supporting their families. Each chapter is based on a different and realistic scenario - reflecting a range of circumstances - to demonstrate the essential generic knowledge and skills they need to develop, and draws out the important practical and theoretical issues students should consider and address if patients and their families are to receive the best possible care.
Written by two experienced palliative care lecturer/practitioners, and mapping closely to the NMC's 2010 domains, the book is tailored to the needs of student nurses working with adult patients. It explores the importance of their role in end-of-life care and how this interfaces with the roles of other multidisciplinary professionals involved in the care of their patients. It will also be helpful to students of other health-care professions and support newly-qualified health-care professionals working in adult health.
This is a clearly written book that provides an essential knowledge and understanding to the undergraduate nursing students. The clear learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter provides a clear outline. The reflective questions and action points throughout the book are very beneficial to stimulate thinking as the reader progress with their reading.
Excellent book for those wishing to look in more depth at end of life care . Recommended to our LRC to enable our students who are working within this field of care to do further reading.
Fits in nicely with Together for Health document
this is more for learners that are studing in the nursing sector
This is an excellent guide for preregistration nurses and newly qualified nurses. All the chapters guide the nurses through the effects of caring for people who are dying and their relatives. Especially helpful are the chapters about communication and managing own emotions.
All students are expected to have an understanding of end of live essential. It is imperative that they know this topic. This book will enable them to do so.
I thought this book was a great resource. Although used by level 3 learners it provide accurate information and was very easy to read.
excellent text - adopted thank you
This book enables the reader to understand the issues that are important when looking after a patient who is nearing the end of their life.
Comprehensive book about end-of-life care
