Palliative Care Nursing: Caring for Suffering Patients continues to explore the concept of suffering as it relates to nursing practice in an updated new edition. This text helps practicing nurses and students define and recognize various aspects of suffering across the lifespan and within various patient populations, while providing guidance in alleviating suffering. In addition, the authors discuss ways nurses that witness suffering can optimize their own coping skills and facilitate personal growth. The Second Edition aligns with the recently updated ELNEC and AACN competencies and features three new chapters discussing advance care planning, palliative care for those with serious illnesses, and strategies for having difficult conversations with patients and families. How do we identify a patient who is suffering? How do we assess whether our patient (and/or their family) is coping with the event? What can we do to alleviate patient suffering? How can we convey the extent of the suffering to the other members of the healthcare team and advocate excellent palliative care for our patients? Palliative Care Nursing: Caring for Suffering Patients, Second Edition answers these questions and more, making it an indispensable resource for nursing students and nurses employed in a variety of health care settings.

About the Author
Kathleen Ouimet Perrin, PhD, RN, is Professor Emerita of Nursing at Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire, where she has taught courses in critical care nursing, professional nursing, understanding suffering, and evidence based practice to baccalaureate and RN to BSN students. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; her master's from Boston College; and her doctoral degree from the Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio. Her primary areas of interest and publication are critical care nursing, ethical issues, nursing history, and suffering experienced by patients and healthcare providers. Caryn A. Sheehan, DNP, APRN-BC is Professor of Nursing at Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire, where she teaches geriatric and medical/surgical nursing to baccalaureate nursing students. She received her bachelor's degree from Saint Anselm College, her master's from Boston College, and her doctoral degree from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Her primary areas of professional interest, publication, and practice include technology in nursing education, men's health, oncology, hospice, chronic pain, gratitude, and quality of life. Mertie L. Potter, DNP, APRN-BC, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC is Professor Emerita of Nursing at Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions (The MGH Institute) in Boston, Massachusetts. She currently counsels and prescribes for patients across the life span at Merrimack Valley Counseling Association in Nashua, NH and continues to precept psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) students from The MGH Institute. She received her bachelor's degree from Simmons College, her master's from the University of Michigan, her doctoral degree from Case Western Reserve University, and her certificate in Family PMHNP Post Master's Certificate Program at Rutgers University. Her special interest areas are grieving, spirituality, body-mind-spirit health, nursing theory, suffering, medical missions, and open consultation with patients and PMHNP students. Mary K. Kazanowski, PhD, APRN-BC, ACHPN, is a nurse practitioner on the Palliative Care Team at Elliot Hospital.. She received her bachelor's degree from Saint Anselm College, her master's from Boston University, and her doctoral degree from Boston College. Her special interests are in symptom management and the implementation of palliative and hospice care into the healthcare system.


Book Information
ISBN 9781284209822
Author Kathleen Ouimet Perrin
Format Paperback
Page Count 400
Imprint Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
Publisher Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
Weight(grams) 539g