To Comfort Always: A Nurse's Guide to End-of-life Care

Concise book filled with practical tips and tricks is priced to appeal to student nurses, beginning nurses, and nurses new to end-of-life practice settings. Focuses on the specific information these nurses need such as advance care planning, how to manage pain and physical symptoms of dying, the need for cultural sensitivity, how dying looks and sounds, the death of a child, and how to deal with grief, how to ease the physical and psychological burden of dying patients and their families. Valuable for other health care professionals such as nursing assistants and home health aids plus families facing end-of-life issues. Real-world examples bring the content to life.