Hospice care for children

Annotation Children with life-threatening and terminal illnesses--and their families-- require a unique kind of care to meet a wide variety of needs. This book, the first edition of which won the 1993 Pediatric Nursing Book of the Year Award, provides an authoritative source for the many people invo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Armstrong-Dailey, Ann (-), Zarbock, Sarah F.
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press 2001.
Edición:2nd ed
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Issues in clinical management. Children's understanding of death
  • Pain and symptom management
  • Psychosocial aspects of serious illness in childhood and adolescence: curse or challenge?
  • Caring for children with life-limiting illness and their families: focus on pediatric hospice nursing
  • Neonatal death
  • Care for the child with HIV infection and AIDS. Support systems. Caring for bereaved parents
  • After a child dies: helping the siblings
  • Spiritual care of children and parents
  • Staff support in pediatric hospice care
  • Unpaid staff: the volunteer component
  • Lessons in grief: a practical look at school programs
  • Therapeutic play and creative arts: helping children cope with illness, death, and grief
  • The primary care physician's role. Different contexts, different lessons. Learning from one another: lessons from pediatrics for palliative care
  • Palliative care in an inpatient hospital setting
  • Ethical decision making at the end of life
  • Incorporating children in an adult hospice program
  • Death-related literature for children and adolescents: selected, annotated, and with guidelines and resources for adults.