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A Palliative Approach for Nursing Practice (Professional Nurse) - Softcover

Dinat, Natalya

 
9780702172854: A Palliative Approach for Nursing Practice (Professional Nurse)

Synopsis

Employing a syndromic approach to palliative care for nurses in South Africa, this guidebook aims to reduce suffering in people with life threatening conditions. Equipping nurses, health care professionals, and medical students with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to enable a palliative approach to their daily clinical practices, this resource addresses special topics of health such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, and honing communication skills for talking with the bereaved. Additional topics of discussion include the legal and ethical issues in palliative care in South Africa, organizing palliative care in the public sector, and the pathophysiology of pain.

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About the Author

Natalya Dinat is a director in the department of medicine at the University of Witwatersrand.

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