Palliative Care in Nursing and Healthcare

End of life care is a core theme in pre-registration nursing and an area of widespread training for qualified staff, who specialise in palliative care. Written specifically for pre-registration students this book will help them prepare for the challenges they face in nursing dying patients and suppo [...]
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End of life care is a core theme in pre-registration nursing and an area of widespread training for qualified staff, who specialise in palliative care. Written specifically for pre-registration students this book will help them prepare for the challenges they face in nursing dying patients and supporting their families. With advances in treatment and people now being able to manage long term conditions there has been a shift in emphasis where palliative care is something that features much earlier in a patient's journey and is delivered to increasing numbers of people. As such it is more useful to think in holistic terms where long term conditions, palliative care and the final stages of life are considered in an integrated fashion.