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Being Present : A Nurse's Resource for End-of-Life Communication
Description:
This E-book, based on nursing research, offer strategies to help nurses talk with patients and families about their needs, hopes, and wishes as they face their own death or that of a loved one. Nurses will learn how to: respond to patient and family wishes and hopes, cope with conflict, help the patient say goodbye at the end of life, and incorporate cultural needs in end-of-life care.
Author(s):
M. Schaffer & L. Norlander
Url:
http://www.nursingknowledge.org/being-present-a-nurse-s-resource-for-end-of-life-communication.html
Publisher:
Sigma Theta Tau International- Honor Society of Nursing
Year:
2009