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Palliative Nursing is an evidence-based practical guide for nurses working in areas of practice where general palliative care is provided. This may be in hospitals, nursing homes, dementia units, the community and any other clinical areas which are not classified as specialist palliative care.
This book first explores the history and ethos of palliative care, and then looks at palliative nursing across various care settings. It then looks at palliative nursing care for people with specific illnesses, including heart failure, dementia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cancer, and neurological conditions. Palliative care for children and young people is discussed, and then the book finally looks at education and research in palliative nursing. Palliative Nursing will be essential reading for all nurses working with palliative care patients in a non specialist role, i.e. in hospitals, primary care and nursing homes, as well as nursing students.
SPECIAL FEATURES Explores the palliative nursing issues related to specific diseases groups Written in the context of the new national tools, i.e. the end of life initiative, preferred place of care, Liverpool care pathway and Gold standards framework. Each chapter includes practice points and cases to allow the practitioner to undertake guided reflection to improve practice Written by nurses for nurses Provides guidance for nurses working in all four countries of the UK
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| Title of eBook: Palliative Nursing: Across the Spectrum of Care | |
| Release Date: 11-16-2009 | |
| Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell |
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Palliative Nursing: Across the Spectrum of Care
Chapter One
The history of palliative careStuart Milligan and Shirley Potts
Introduction
The history of palliative care is a fascinating story of how ideas and practices around the care of people with life-threatening illnesses have evolved against a background of social trends, changing public opinion and policy developments. Central to that story is the history of modern hospice care, from a promise of a window to a worldwide movement. This chapter will focus primarily on the UK, but will also locate that story within an international context.
Learning outcomes
Once you have read this chapter and completed the associated practice points you will be able to:
Discuss the origins of palliative care
Describe the influence of the modern hospice movement in the development of palliative care
Identify ways in which palliative care is responding to contemporary challenges
The origins of palliative care
Whilst only recognised as an area of medical specialty in 1987, palliative care has a much longer history than that date would imply. The evolution into the services seen today can be traced to a few inspirational figures whose determination and dynamism spurred radical change in the care of the dying. Chief among these was Dame Cicely Saunders who is largely credited with inspiring the modern hospice movement. However, the origins of palliative care can be traced back considerably further.
The word palliative derives from the Latin pallium, meaning cloak or covering - reflected in the Middle Eastern blessing, 'may you be wrapped in tenderness, you my brother, as in
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