Download or read book Prelude to Hospice written by Emily K. Abel and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospices have played a critical role in transforming ideas about death and dying. Viewing death as a natural event, hospices seek to enable people approaching mortality to live as fully and painlessly as possible. Award-winning medical historian Emily K. Abel provides insight into several important issues surrounding the growth of hospice care. Using a unique set of records, Prelude to Hospice expands our understanding of the history of U.S. hospices. Compiled largely by Florence Wald, the founder of the first U.S. hospice, the records provide a detailed account of her experiences studying and caring for dying people and their families in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although Wald never published a report of her findings, she often presented her material informally. Like many others seeking to found new institutions, she believed she could garner support only by demonstrating that her facility would be superior in every respect to what currently existed. As a result, she generated inflated expectations about what a hospice could accomplish. Wald’s records enable us to glimpse the complexities of the work of tending to dying people.
Download or read book Junctures in Women s Leadership written by Mary E. O'Dowd and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Junctures in Women's Leadership: Health Care and Public Health offers an eclectic compilation of case studies of women leaders in public health and health care over nearly 150 years. Extraordinarily relevant to current public discourse, topics include: the COVID-19 pandemic, health disparities, disease prevention and the Affordable Care Act. Their leadership lessons can be applied to a broad array of disciplines.
Download or read book Prelude to Eternity written by Anne Pennington Grenfell and published by Inspiring Voices. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PRELUDE to ETERNITY: A Journey to Beyond Death is an intimate, moving and compelling portrait of a couples travels through lifes greatest challenge: preparing for its ending. The story offers convincing evidence that physical death is just a preface to the next level of existence. Empowered by their deep love for each other, Pascoe and Annes search for meaning leads them to explore the deepest dimensions of spiritual discovery. You will share their remarkable experience in mans eternal quest for understanding and peace as they face the unknown. You will tread the stony path with them through denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally, acceptance. And youll find yourself rejoicing with them when they emerge triumphant with the assurance that life continues beyond death. Everyone who has endured the passing of a loved one will identify with this intensely human portrayal about conquering the defeat of despair and finding security in the knowledge that life does not end, it only changes
Download or read book Hospice and Palliative Care written by Stephen R. Connor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a comprehensive overview of the practice of hospice, as well as the challenges faced by and the direction of the hospice movement. This book provides chapters that address key topics such as the goals and importance of community involvement, outcome measurement, and the manner in which hospices address death, grief, and bereavement.
Download or read book Hospice written by Jack McKay Zimmerman and published by Urban & Schwarzenberg. This book was released on 1986 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees written by Linda Farber Post and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can dedicated ethics committees members fulfill their complex roles as moral analysts, policy reviewers, and clinical consultants? The Joint Commission (TJC) accredits and certifies more than 19,000 health care organizations in the United States, including hospitals, nursing homes, and home care agencies. Each organization must have a standing health care ethics committee to maintain its status. These interdisciplinary committees are composed of physicians, nurses, attorneys, ethicists, administrators, and interested citizens. Their main function is to review and provide resolutions for specific, individual patient care problems. Many of these committees are well meaning but may lack the information, experience, skills, and formal background in bioethics needed to adequately negotiate the complex ethical issues that arise in clinical and organizational settings. Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees was the first book of its kind to address the myriad responsibilities faced by ethics committees, including education, case consultation, and policy development. Adopting an accessible tone and using a case study format, the authors explore serious issues involving informed consent and refusal, decision making and decisional capacity, truth telling, the end of life, palliative care, justice in and access to health care services, and organizational ethics. The authors have thoroughly updated the content and expanded their focus in the second edition to include ethics committees in other clinical settings, such as long-term care facilities, small community hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and hospices. They have added three new chapters that address reproduction, disability, and the special needs of the elder population, and they provide additional specialized policies and procedures on the book’s website. This guide is an essential resource for all health care ethics committee members.
Download or read book Dying at Home written by Andrea Sankar and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide for those caring for a loved one nearing the end of life. Many people seek the comfort and dignity of dying at home. Advances in pharmacology and hospice care allow the dying to remain at home relatively free of pain and symptoms, but navigating professional services, insurance coverage, and family dynamics often compounds the complexity of this process. Extensively updated and revised, this third edition of Andrea Sankar's Dying at Home: A Family Guide for Caregiving provides essential information that caregivers and dying persons need to navigate this journey. Featuring contributions by professionals and personal stories from in-depth case studies of family caregivers, this guide discusses the challenges, resources, benefits, and barriers to care at home. With updates on advance care planning, developments in palliative care medicine, and the availability of legally assisted dying, this edition discusses how to: • Arrange medical care, nursing, and ancillary therapies • Understand costs, sources of financial support, and insurance coverage • Collaborate with health professionals in the home • Assist in implementing pain management techniques • Find social and spiritual support, as well as self-care for caregivers • Handle family dynamics and legal matters • Collaborate to make complex care and treatment decisions • Navigate the process of dying and caring for the body after death
Download or read book Hospice Ethics written by Timothy W. Kirk and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospice care is one of the fastest-growing segments of the U. S. healthcare system, a trend that is expected to accelerate as the median age of the population continues to rise over the next three decades. Despite over forty percent of the population now dying while on hospice care, very little has been published on the ethical opportunities and challenges experienced in the everyday lives of those giving and receiving hospice care. This book is the first comprehensive collection devoted to analyzing distinctive ethical issues arising in the delivery of hospice care and designed to promote best ethical practices for hospice care professionals and organizations. Thirteen newly commissioned chapters by seventeen hospice experts populate three thematic sections of the book, each devoted to an aspect of the intersection between ethics and hospice care. Contributors have unique qualifications and abilities to articulate and respond to ethically significant phenomena that -- while not always unique to hospice care -- arise in especially poignant and complex ways when caring for patients enrolled in hospice. As the shift or return to home-based care at the end of life continues, hospice professionals and programs will be faced with a broader array of terminal illnesses, cultural beliefs and traditions, and patient and family values than ever before. Hospice will no longer be tailored solely to the final stage of cancer, but will need to accommodate patients whose illnesses are variable in their progression and whose treatment plans include many medical options. The ethical orientations and frameworks that have served hospice for the past 50 years will need to be supplemented and refined if hospice is to fulfill this changing social mission. Hospice Ethics explores a new paradigm for hospice ethics from a multi-disciplinary and provides an important educational resource for professional training in end of life care.
Download or read book BEDSIDE PORTRAITS written by Janine Carranza and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life stories of hospice patients recorded at their bedside.
Download or read book Manna from Heaven written by Amethyst A. Nelson-Preston and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book walks you through the process of death and dying in the tapestry of a great and courageous man. Sams life sketched the bravery and dignity in which he was able to show us how to journey through his disease process in a poetic way. It not only takes you through the daily journey of Sams life, it also allowed you to look into the window of his family coping process. Manna from Heaven gives you a glimpse into how one family dealt with the aspect of death and dying, and reveal how each individual dealt with the emotional responses to the prospect of dying. A large part of the book is really about an individual coping with his immortality, and the honorable e and faithful way in which he was able to claim victory in the face of death. And it removed the covering, revealing the journey of his family as they tried to cope and live in the midst of his illness, rather than preparing for death. This book gives a realistic spin, by examining issues faced by the dying and their families. Such as: emotional feelings, finances, telling the truth about dying, secret desire for miracle cures. The management of pain, and not just physical pain but also, psychological pain that can affect how the dying deals with his disease. The questions, what is end- of life care? And what are advance directives? And, the various family dynamics and the difficulties that death and dying brings with it. Moreover, Issues of dying at home, funerals arrangement, bereavement; and life after death.
Download or read book Compassionate Person Centered Care for the Dying written by Bonnie Freeman, RN, DNP, ANP, ACHPN and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A milestone resource for palliative care nurses that facilitates evidence-based compassionate and humanistic care of the dying "A valuable contribution to the evolving field of palliative nursing care. It is authored by a model for this field, Bonnie Freeman, and brings to the bedside what her practice embodies--evidence-based clinically expert care...The CARES tool is a long-needed resource and we are all grateful to the author for moving her passion to paper. It will touch the lives and deaths of patients, families, and the nurses who care for them." --Betty Ferrell, PhD, RN, MA, FAAN, FCPN, CHPN Professor and Director, Division of Nursing Research and Education City of Hope National Medical Center From the Foreword This groundbreaking reference for palliative care nurses is the first to provide realistic and achievable evidence-based methods for incorporating compassionate and humanistic care of the dying into current standards of practice. It builds on the author's research-based CARES tool; a reference that synthesizes five key elements demonstrated to enable a peaceful death, as free from suffering as possible: comfort, airway management, management of restlessness and delirium, emotional and spiritual support, and selfcare for nurses. The book describes, step by step, how nurses can easily implement the basic tenets of the CARES tool into their end-of-life practice. It provides a clearly defined plan that can be individualized for each patient and tailored to specific family needs, and facilitates caring for the dying in the most respectful and humane way possible. The book identifies the most common symptom management needs in dying patients and describes, in detail, the five components of the CARES paradigm and how to implement them to enable a peaceful death and minimize suffering. It includes palliative care prompts founded on 29 evidence-based recommendations and the National Consensus Project for Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines. The resource also addresses the importance of the nurse to act as a patient advocate, how to achieve compassionate communication with the patient and family, and barriers and challenges to compassionate care. Case studies emphasize the importance of compassionate nursing care of the dying and how it can be effectively achieved. Key Features: Provides nurses with a clear understanding of the most common needs of the dying and supplies practical applications to facilitate and improve care Clarifies the current and often complex literature on care of the dying Includes case studies illustrating the most common needs of dying patients and how these are addressed effectively by the CARES tool Based on extensive evidence as well as on the National Consensus Project for Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines
Download or read book Compassionate Person Centered Care for the Dying written by Bonnie Freeman and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking reference for palliative care nurses is the first to provide realistic and achievable evidence-based methods for incorporating compassionate and humanistic care of the dying into current standards of practice. It builds on the author’s research-based CARES Tool, a reference that synthesizes five key elements demonstrated to enable a peaceful death as free from suffering as possible: Comfort, Airway Management, Management of Restlessness and Delirium, Emotional and Spiritual Support, and Self-Care for Nurses. The book describes step-by-step how nurses can easily implement the basic tenets of the CARES Tool into their end-of-life practice. It provides a clearly defined plan that can be individualized for each patient and tailored to specific family needs, and facilitates caring for the dying in the most respectful and humane way possible.
Download or read book Issues in Hospital and Hospice Research and Practice 2013 Edition written by and published by ScholarlyEditions. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues in Hospital and Hospice Research and Practice: 2013 Edition is a ScholarlyBrief™ that delivers timely, authoritative, comprehensive, and specialized information about Hospitals in a concise format. The editors have built Issues in Hospital and Hospice Research and Practice: 2013 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Hospitals in this book to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Hospital and Hospice Research and Practice: 2013 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.
Download or read book Letters From the End of Life written by David H. Rosen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-05-03 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of small letters was written as I entered Hospice. It offers thanks and reflections on life. It's about finding my way and coming to terms with myself and God.
Download or read book The Hospice Experiment written by Vincent Mor and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays discuss the cost-effectiveness of hospices, hospice patients, the design of the national study, and the medical and social aspects of hospice care.
Download or read book Palliative Nursing written by Elaine Stevens and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palliative Nursing is an evidence-based practical guide fornurses working in areas of practice where general palliative careis provided. This may be in hospitals, nursing homes, dementiaunits, the community and any other clinical areas which are notclassified as specialist palliative care. This book first explores the history and ethos of palliativecare, and then looks at palliative nursing across various caresettings. It then looks at palliative nursing care for peoplewith specific illnesses, including heart failure, dementia, chronicobstructive pulmonary disease, cancer, and neurological conditions.Palliative care for children and young people is discussed, andthen the book finally looks at education and research in palliativenursing. Palliative Nursing will be essential readingfor all nurses working with palliative care patients in a nonspecialist role, i.e. in hospitals, primary care and nursing homes,as well as nursing students. SPECIAL FEATURES Explores the palliative nursing issues related to specificdiseases groups Written in the context of the new national tools, i.e. the endof life initiative, preferred place of care, Liverpool care pathwayand Gold standards framework. Each chapter includes practice points and cases to allow thepractitioner to undertake guided reflection to improvepractice Written by nurses for nurses Provides guidance for nurses working in all four countries ofthe UK
Download or read book Cumulated Index Medicus written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
