Tools for Practice

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

Publisher:

Sigma Theta Tau International- Honor Society of Nursing

Year:

2009