Nursing Care at the End of Life

Introduction: The Family Caregiving Model; Unit 1: The Context of Caring at the End of Life; Death in Contemporary America; The Hospice Movement and Hospice Organizations; The Palliative Care Movement; Unit 2: Sustaining Oneself; Grieving and Letting Go; Personal and Organizational Strategies for Staying Healthy; Collaborating with an Interdisciplinary Team; Unit 3: Caring Communication; The Skills of Connecting; Understanding the Human Experience of Dying Individuals; Understanding the Experience of Family and Friends; Strengthening Families to Provide Care and Care for Themselves; Cross Cultural Caring; Unit 4: Spiritual Care at the End of Life; Recognizing Spiritual Issues; Fostering Dialogue and Reconciliation; Unit 5: Comforting: Management of Pain; Pain Control Issues in Contemporary America; Principles of Pain Assessment and Control; Unit 6: Comforting: Management of Symptoms Other than Pain; Palliative Reasoning; Relief of Common Symptoms; Anticipating Final Symptoms with Common Medical Diagnoses; Unit 7: The End of Life and Bereavement; Caring When Death is Imminent; Caring During Bereavement; Glossary.