1st Edition
Nutrition and Hydration in Hospice Care Needs, Strategies, Ethics
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
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This scholarly book enables health care professionals to appropriately address hospice patients’and families’concerns about nutrition and hydration. Nutrition and Hydration in Hospice Care is a comprehensive resource that provides hands-on practical information that readers can use in everyday hospice practice. The chapters identify problems, solutions, and ethical issues of nutrition... Read more
Contents
Preface
- Nursing’s Role in the Nutritional Care of the Terminally Ill: Weathering the Storm
- Nutrition and Hydration in the Terminally Ill Cancer Patient: The Nurse’s Role in Helping Patients and Families Cope
- Nutritional Care of the Terminally Ill Adult
- Caring for the Dying Child
- Appetite Stimulants in Terminal Care: Treatment of Anorexia
- Maximizing Foodservice in an Inpatient Hospice Setting
- Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition Support of Terminally Ill Patients: Practical and Ethical Perspectives
- Legal Decisions Affecting the Limitation of Nutritional Support
- Reference Notes Included
- Index
Biography
Charlette Gallagher-Allred, Madalon O'Rawe Amenta
