Previous ed.: published as by Robert Becker and Richard Gamlin. Dinton: Quay, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Presenting a supportive approach to the key themes of palliative care nursing, this title contains important material of a wide range of initiatives that are impacting on end of life care across the UK.

Highly readable text will be useful not only for students and nurses with an interest in palliative care, but for those in any area of nursing as distress, serious illness and death do not confine themselves to the palliative care setting. Offers evidence-based research and suggestions for achieving quality care for the terminally ill with new chapters included throughout. Restructured and revised throughout this is a handy reference guide with practical bullet points, case students, clinical ancedotes and student assessment questions. This second edition builds on the phenomenal success of the first edition. Student nurses are intimately involved in caring for the dying and bereaved. This book takes a sensitive and supportive approach to the key themes of palliative care nursing. It provides the reader with a concise and easy to read yet practical text that will give direction to the challenges faced in this most important area of patient care. This second edition is designed to be a compact, learning-oriented, evidence-based handbook which offers omprehensive, practice guidelines across the spectrum of palliative/end of life care scenarios to provide a trigger and opportunity for reflection and learning. 'This book is a thoughtful and thought provoking text and will be a useful addition to the library of anyone teaching or taking palliative care courses or placements in end-of-life care settings'. Dion Smyth, Lecturer-practitioner in Cancer and Palliative Care, Birmingham City University, in The International Journal of Palliative Nursing 2010, Vol 16, No 8.

Also available in printed form ISBN 9781856423946

Electronic reproduction. Askews and Holts. Mode of access: World Wide Web.