Palliative Care

Professor Judith Parker is Head of School of Postgraduate Nursing, University of Melbourne, recently ex Foundation Professor of Nursing, La Trobe University. She is a highly respected academic, much published, and has a long-standing interest in Cancer Nursing and Palliative Care. She has carried out research in Palliative Care funded by Commonwealth Department of Health. Associate Professor Sanchia Aranda is at the Centre for Palliative Care, School of Postgraduate Nursing, University of Melbourne. Until this years she was Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing at La Trobe University, teaching in Cancer Nursing and Palliative Care. She was involved in developing this course as a major in the Graduate Diploma of Advanced Nursing. She has a long association with the Melbourne City Mission Hospice.

Introduction; Hospice; Principles and implications; Cultural diversity; Medical speciality; Within the health care system; Competing discourses within palliative care; Spirituality; Psychosocial dimensions; The 'good death'; Nursing the dying; The inevitability of death: Some reflections; Euthanasia: Clinical, ethical & legal aspects; Is euthanasia an option?; Breaking the silence: Dementia; From the critical turning point to new direction; Referrals; Furthering the development; The nurse consultant in acute setting; Children with life threatening illnesses; Critical care and technology; Bone marrow transplant; Dying of AIDS; Motor neurone disease; In the twilight of Alzheimer's disease; The elderly in residential settings; Index.