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Palliative and End-of-Life Care, An Issue of Nursing Clinics of North America, E-Book
James C. Pace | Dorothy Wholihan
(2016)
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Abstract
The Guest Editors have secured top experts in the area of palliative care to write current and clinically relevant articles. Articles in this issue are devoted to: Caring for LGBT Populations; Integrating Palliative Care into Primary Care; Pain Management in the Cognitively Impaired; Pain Management in the Client with Substance Use Disorder; Rituals at End of Life; Death Bed Phenomena; Family Care During End of Life; Palliative Wound Care; Pet-Assisted Therapy in Palliative Care; Palliative Sedation: State of the Science. Readers will come away with the updated information they need to provide state-of-the-art palliative care to their patients.
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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Front Cover | Cover | ||
Palliative and End-of-Life Care\r | i | ||
Copyright\r | ii | ||
Contributors | iii | ||
CONSULTING EDITOR | iii | ||
EDITORS | iii | ||
AUTHORS | iii | ||
Contents | v | ||
Foreword: The Difference Between Palliative Care and End-of-Life Care: More than Semantics\r | v | ||
Preface: Palliative and End-of-Life Care: Compassion, Care, Commitment, Communication, Communion\r | v | ||
Integrating Palliative Care into Primary Care\r | v | ||
Animal-Assisted Therapy in Pediatric Palliative Care\r | v | ||
Pain Assessment in Noncommunicative Adult Palliative Care Patients\r | v | ||
Pain Management in the Individual with Serious Illness and Comorbid Substance Use Disorder\r | vi | ||
A Review of Palliative Sedation\r | vi | ||
Family Care During End-of-Life Vigils\r | vi | ||
Rituals at End-of-life\r | vi | ||
Seeing the Light: End-of-Life Experiences—Visions, Energy Surges, and Other Death Bed Phenomena\r | vi | ||
Providing Palliative Care to LGBTQ Patients\r | vii | ||
Palliative Wound Care for Malignant Fungating Wounds: Holistic Considerations at End-of-Life\r | vii | ||
NURSING CLINICS OF\rNORTH AMERICA\r | viii | ||
FORTHCOMING ISSUES | viii | ||
December 2016 | viii | ||
March 2017 | viii | ||
June 2017 | viii | ||
RECENT ISSUES | viii | ||
June 2016 | viii | ||
March 2016 | viii | ||
December 2015 | viii | ||
Foreword:\rThe Difference Between Palliative Care and End of Life Care: More than Semantics | ix | ||
REFERENCE | x | ||
Preface:\rPalliative and End-of-Life Care: Compassion, Care, Commitment, Communication, Communion | xi | ||
Integrating Palliative Care into Primary Care | 367 | ||
Key points | 367 | ||
PRIMARY CARE PROVIDERS | 368 | ||
BENEFITS OF PALLIATIVE CARE | 369 | ||
IDENTIFYING THE NEED FOR PALLIATIVE CARE | 370 | ||
GENERALIST OR SPECIALIST PALLIATIVE CARE | 370 | ||
Generalist Palliative Care | 370 | ||
Specialist Palliative Care | 371 | ||
CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE PALLIATIVE CARE GENERALIST | 371 | ||
Physical and Psychological Symptoms | 371 | ||
Communication Skills | 371 | ||
Community Resources | 372 | ||
SPECIALTY LOCATIONS | 373 | ||
Pediatrics | 373 | ||
Home Care | 374 | ||
Long-term Care | 374 | ||
Hospice | 374 | ||
REIMBURSEMENT | 375 | ||
Chronic Care Management Services | 375 | ||
SUMMARY | 375 | ||
REFERENCES | 376 | ||
Animal-Assisted Therapy in Pediatric Palliative Care | 381 | ||
Key points | 381 | ||
INTRODUCTION | 381 | ||
BACKGROUND | 382 | ||
Types of Animal-Assisted Therapy | 383 | ||
Defining Animal-Assisted Therapy | 384 | ||
Animal-Assisted Therapy with Adults | 384 | ||
Animal-Assisted Therapy with Children | 385 | ||
LIMITATIONS | 388 | ||
Contraindications to Animal-Assisted Therapy | 389 | ||
PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS | 389 | ||
CURRENT AND FUTURE RESEARCH | 390 | ||
REFERENCES | 391 | ||
Pain Assessment in Noncommunicative Adult Palliative Care Patients | 397 | ||
Key points | 397 | ||
INTRODUCTION | 397 | ||
REVIEW OF SELECTED PAIN ASSESSMENT TOOLS | 400 | ||
Behavioral Pain Scale | 400 | ||
Checklist of Nonverbal Pain Indicators | 409 | ||
Critical Care Pain Observation Tool | 418 | ||
Face, Legs, Activity, Cry, and Consolability Pain Tool | 419 | ||
Multidimensional Observational Pain Assessment Tool | 419 | ||
Nociceptive Coma Scale | 420 | ||
Nonverbal Pain Scale | 421 | ||
KEY FACTORS IN SELECTING PAIN ASSESSMENT TOOLS | 422 | ||
CASE STUDIES | 426 | ||
SUMMARY | 427 | ||
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 427 | ||
REFERENCES | 428 | ||
Pain Management in the Individual with Serious Illness and Comorbid Substance Use Disorder | 433 | ||
Key points | 433 | ||
INTRODUCTION | 434 | ||
PREVALENCE OF SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER | 434 | ||
SCOPE OF PROBLEM IN HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE | 434 | ||
CLARIFYING TERMINOLOGY | 435 | ||
SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER ON A CONTINUUM | 436 | ||
UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS | 437 | ||
PAIN ASSESSMENT | 437 | ||
MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES | 439 | ||
Informed Consent and Treatment Agreements | 439 | ||
Urine Drug Testing | 439 | ||
Prescription Monitoring Programs and Electronic Prescribing | 441 | ||
Opioid Selection | 441 | ||
DESIGNING A SAFE TREATMENT PLAN | 442 | ||
SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE ACUTE CARE OR INPATIENT HOSPICE SETTING | 443 | ||
SUMMARY | 443 | ||
REFERENCES | 444 | ||
A Review of Palliative Sedation | 449 | ||
Key points | 449 | ||
INTRODUCTION | 449 | ||
CASE STUDY | 449 | ||
TERMINOLOGY, INDICATIONS, AND TYPES OF PALLIATIVE SEDATION | 450 | ||
Evolving Definitions | 450 | ||
Indications for the Use of Palliative Sedation | 450 | ||
Types of Sedation to Achieve Palliative Sedation | 451 | ||
TREATMENT OPTIONS | 452 | ||
Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic | 452 | ||
Treatment Guidelines and Position Statements | 452 | ||
ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS | 453 | ||
Proportionality, Euthanasia, and the Principle of Double Effect | 453 | ||
When is a Symptom Considered to be Refractory? | 453 | ||
Informed Consent Before Initiation | 454 | ||
Nonphysiologic Symptoms/Existential Distress: to Use or Not to Use Palliative Sedation? | 454 | ||
NURSING CARE | 454 | ||
Before Initiating Palliative Sedation | 454 | ||
During the Process of Palliative Sedation | 455 | ||
After Palliative Sedation | 456 | ||
SUMMARY | 456 | ||
REFERENCES | 456 | ||
Family Care During End-of-Life Vigils | 459 | ||
Key points | 459 | ||
INTRODUCTION | 459 | ||
BACKGROUND | 459 | ||
SIGNIFICANCE TO NURSING | 460 | ||
LITERATURE REVIEW | 460 | ||
CONCEPTUAL DEFINITIONS | 460 | ||
VIGIL AS TRANSITION | 461 | ||
VIGIL: A STATE OF AWARENESS | 461 | ||
VIGIL AS PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSTRUCT | 462 | ||
VIGIL AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESS | 462 | ||
VIGIL AS ANTICIPATORY MOURNING | 462 | ||
VIGIL: THE ACT OF VIGILANCE | 463 | ||
VIGIL AS CARING | 463 | ||
VIGIL AS SOCIAL PROCESS | 464 | ||
VIGIL AS RITUAL | 464 | ||
SUMMATION OF RESEARCH | 465 | ||
NURSING IMPLICATIONS: CARE OF THE VIGILING FAMILY | 465 | ||
DISCUSSION | 467 | ||
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 467 | ||
REFERENCES | 467 | ||
Rituals at End-of-Life | 471 | ||
Key points | 471 | ||
BACKGROUND: RITUALS AT END OF LIFE REFLECT, APPRECIATE, AND HONOR LIFE | 471 | ||
THE SPIRITUAL AND RELIGIOUS IMPORTANCE OF RITUAL(S) | 472 | ||
Spirituality | 472 | ||
Religion | 472 | ||
MEANINGFUL RITUALS AT MISCARRIAGE, STILLBIRTH, AND NEWBORN DEATH | 473 | ||
THE MALE PERSPECTIVE OF PERINATAL LOSS | 474 | ||
RITUALS IN THE CRITICAL CARE SETTING | 474 | ||
RITUALS IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM | 475 | ||
RITUALS ASSOCIATED WITH THE UNFOUND (THE MISSING) | 476 | ||
HONORING CEREMONIES | 477 | ||
LEGACY MAKING: PRESERVING MEMORIES | 478 | ||
Postmortem Photography | 478 | ||
Molds, Inks, Castings, and Material Objects (the Importance of a Memento) | 478 | ||
Social Media | 478 | ||
MAINTAINING (CONTINUING) BONDS: POSTDEATH ENCOUNTERS | 478 | ||
RITUAL AT END OF LIFE AS SACRAMENT | 479 | ||
Baptism | 479 | ||
Marriage | 479 | ||
Anointing with Oil | 480 | ||
RITUAL DRAMA: MUSIC THERAPY AT THE BEDSIDE | 480 | ||
COLLECTIVE RESPONSES TO DEATH | 480 | ||
VARIOUS OTHER RITUALS | 481 | ||
END-OF-LIFE RITUALS AND THE NURSE | 482 | ||
SUMMARY | 483 | ||
REFERENCES | 484 | ||
Appendix 1. APPENDIX 1 GIVING THANKS FOR THE UNEXPECTED LOSS OF A LIFE | 486 | ||
A closing ritual at the bedside of the deceased | 487 | ||
Appendix 2. APPENDIX 2 IN THE CASE OF THE NEED FOR EMERGENCY BAPTISM | 487 | ||
Supplies needed | 487 | ||
A formula for emergency baptism | 487 | ||
Seeing the Light | 489 | ||
Key points | 489 | ||
INTRODUCTION AND HISTORY | 490 | ||
BARRIERS TO RECOGNITION OF THE CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF END-OF-LIFE EXPERIENCES | 490 | ||
REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE | 490 | ||
INCIDENCE | 491 | ||
DEFINING DEATH BED PHENOMENA: VISIONS | 493 | ||
DEFINING DEATH BED PHENOMENA: ENERGY SURGES IN THE LAST HOURS OF LIFE | 494 | ||
DEATH BED PHENOMENA: MYSTICAL EXPERIENCES OR MEDICAL DELIRIUM? | 494 | ||
IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE | 495 | ||
Clinical Assessment of Death Bed Phenomena | 495 | ||
Open Communication | 495 | ||
CARE OF FAMILY AND LOVED ONES | 495 | ||
PATIENTS | 496 | ||
NEED FOR EDUCATION | 498 | ||
SUMMARY | 498 | ||
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 498 | ||
REFERENCES | 498 | ||
Providing Palliative Care to LGBTQ Patients | 501 | ||
Key points | 501 | ||
UNIQUE HEALTH ISSUES | 502 | ||
Stigmatization | 503 | ||
Social Supports | 503 | ||
Advance Care Planning | 503 | ||
Concerns About Disclosure | 504 | ||
SPECIAL NEEDS OF THE TRANSGENDER POPULATION | 504 | ||
NURSING IMPLICATIONS | 504 | ||
Stigmatization | 504 | ||
Disclosure | 505 | ||
Social Isolation and Limited Caregiver Availability | 505 | ||
Transgender People at High Risk | 507 | ||
LGBTQ Elders at High Risk | 508 | ||
Care of “Families of Choice” | 508 | ||
IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING EDUCATION | 509 | ||
IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING POLICY | 509 | ||
IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING RESEARCH | 509 | ||
SUMMARY | 509 | ||
REFERENCES | 510 | ||
Palliative Wound Care for Malignant Fungating Wounds | 513 | ||
Key points | 513 | ||
INTRODUCTION: THE MAGNITUDE OF SUFFERING | 513 | ||
ROLE OF THE HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE WOUND, OSTOMY, AND CONTINENCE NURSE | 516 | ||
PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS OF CARE | 517 | ||
PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS OF CARE: COMPLEMENTARY ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE | 519 | ||
SPIRITUAL ASPECTS OF CARE | 519 | ||
PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF CARE: PAIN | 520 | ||
PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF CARE: ODOR AND EXUDATES | 521 | ||
PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF CARE: MOISTURE-ASSOCIATED SKIN DAMAGE AND PRURITUS | 522 | ||
PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF CARE: BLEEDING | 526 | ||
SUMMARY | 528 | ||
REFERENCES | 529 | ||
Index | 533 |