Palliative Care
Foods That Build Muscle Tissue
Since muscle tissue is built from amino acids (proteins),
a diet that contains adequate protein is necessary when
trying to build muscles.
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Paediatric Palliative Care
This chapter provides an overview of the issues involved in paediatric palliative care and the strategies that can be used in a comprehensive approach to care...
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Radiotherapy
This chapter discusses radiotherapy for gynaecological cancers and focuses on the doses of radiotherapy, its types and the acute and late effects of it...
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Building a Successful Volunteer Program-Legal Aspects
Analysis of legal risks and implications when engaging volunteers to work in an organization.
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The Doctor: That's How Death Should Be
This chapter provides examples of significant relationships formed when the doctor, the chaplain, the volunteer, the student and the activities staff are included in the team...
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Prelims - Nursing the Person with Cancer
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Supporting Families and Carers
This chapter examines the characteristics for optimal cancer care and the requirements of health professionals to provide full psychosocial support services to partners, caregivers and other family members, in addition to the patients themselves...
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Administration, Office Procedures and Budget Issues
Guidelines for facilitating the efficient and smooth implementation and maintenance of a new volunteer program.
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Assessing Concerns (in Patients with a Cancer Diagnosis)
This chapter explores how to properly assess patient concerns and provides guidance on how to approach this...
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A Nurse Reflects on Being a Patient with Secondary Cancer
This session discusses the lived experience of a nurse who has a diagnosis of cancer of the breast. This poignant lecture is a profoundly moving session that will assist all nurses to reflect on their own practice and the manner in which they relate to vu
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Strategies to Manage Your Worry
Providing four easy steps to help manage your worry, this fact sheet encourages active self-help when an individual may be becoming overwhelmed by worrisome thoughts...
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Pain Management in Palliative Care
This chapter provides an overview of the assessment and management of pain at the end of life. Definitions of pain and barriers to adequate pain management are also addressed....
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Working with Families (palliative care)
This chapter focuses on work with care of families in the palliative phase of a person’s illness...
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Fatigue (in palliative care)
The message of this chapter is that a single approach cannot manage fatigue. Fatigue is a total experience affecting a person physically, mentally, emotionally and socially. A comprehensive approach to nursing management is thus required...
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Physical Care (Palliative)
This chapter discusses the common physical signs and symptoms of older persons who are dying. It looks at various types of patients and how they should be cared for...
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Palliative Care for Ageing People
This chapter provides a positive insight into palliative care and its varying aims and responses. It also offers suggestions for the carer and community in terms of responding to cancer and other palliative care illnesses affecting the ageing person...
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You have Prostate Cancer
This chapter provides a first-hand account of a man suffering from prostate cancer. It relates his story from when he was first diagnosed, his treatment and his recovery...
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Malignant Wounds
The problems associated with a malignant wound can have a devastating effect on a person’s well being and can cause a marked decline in quality of life. This chapter guides nurses through how to manage 'fungating' or malignant wounds...
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Lymphoedema
Lymphoedema is a chronic and life-changing condition. Although it
cannot be cured, it can be managed successfully. This chapter provides
suggestions for effectively managing lymphoedema using numerous
techniques...
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Psychological and Existential Distress (realted to palliative care)
Potential causes of transient distress in palliative care include insensitive comments, long waits in clinical departments and disease symptoms. Such potential causes of distress should be an important focus of attention in everyday nursing practice..
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