Palliative Care Nursing: Principles and Evidence for Practice

What can nurses do to support those receiving palliative care?
How do you ensure clear communication and maintain patients¿ and families¿ preferences?

Palliative Care Nursing is essential reading for nursing students, professional nurses and other health and social care professionals providing supportive and palliative care to those with advanced illness or who are towards the end of life. This third edition of the acclaimed textbook has been extensively revised and examines important research studies, key debates around care and strategies to advance palliative care nursing.

In four sections, the book covers key elements of nursing practice towards the end of life:

¿ Defining the palliative care patient
¿ Providing palliative nursing care
¿ Caring around the time of death
¿ Challenging issues in palliative care nursing

Leading authors address contemporary issues and explore how to provide high quality pe