Terminal Illness: A Guide to Nursing Care

This text provides a nursing care approach to the problems and issues that arise when caring for patients with terminal cancer and other illnesses such as degenerative neurological disorders, AIDS and more. It identifies the problems nurses will encounter with terminal patients and examines independent and interdependent nursing interventions. This comprehensive text is divided into two sections for easier understanding of the material. The psychosocial care section examines the dying process, cultural responses, ethical issues, and caregiver's stress. The section on symptom management is arranged by body systems and shows how to determine etiology and interventions for existing symptoms and identifies potential problems and appropriate nursing interventions for managing advanced disease.