1st Edition
Collaborative Practice in Palliative Care
1.What is collaborative practice and why is it important in palliative care?
Dave Roberts
2.The importance of place: collaboration across institutional boundaries
Laura Green
3.Seeing a familiar face: Collaboration across professional boundaries
Laura Green and Vanessa Taylor
4.Caring for the person in their world: collaboration in context
Victoria Ali
5.Systems within systems: collaboration with the family
Linda McEnhill and Patrica McCrossan
6.Building Bridges: Collaboration between organisations
Manjula Patel
7.Psychological care: everybody’s business?
Dave Roberts
8.Compassionate Communities: Working with marginalised populations
Aliki Karapliagkou
9.Collaboration in palliative care: Global perspectives
Dave Roberts, Zipporah Ali and Brigid Sirengo
Chapter 10- The future: Developing collaborative palliative care
Dave Roberts
Biography
Dave Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Cancer and Palliative Care at Oxford Brookes University. His research interests and publications focus primarily on psychosocial aspects of health, principally cancer & palliative care, communication skills, and psychological interventions, and global aspects of health care and education.
Laura Green is Lecturer in Adult Nursing at the University of Manchester, teaching palliative and end of life care at pre-registration and Masters level programmes. She is Deputy Director of the Non-Medical Prescribing Programme. She is a member of the University’s Research Ethics Panel. Her clinical experience is as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative Care, and a nurse working in the community and hospice settings. Laura is one of three nurses who established @WeEOLC, an online Twitter community of learning and practice, and is a regular host of Tweet Chats. She blogs at www.lmiddletongreen.wordpress.com and tweets as @heblau and @WeEOLC.
