Claud F B Regnard, Margaret Kindlen

Supportive and Palliative Care in Cancer (eBook, ePUB)

An Introduction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a clear approach to establishing a user involvement system in a healthcare organisation and its potential impact on cancer services. Using a tool kit style approach drawing on examples of successful past projects and case studies to provide evidence of good practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315358444
• Artikelnr.: 54672589

Autorenporträt

Claud F B Regnard, Margaret Kindlen

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: Cancer 1. What is cancer? 2. What causes cancer? 3. Types of
cancer 4. Detecting cancer 5. Cancer diagnosis and monitoring Section 2:
Cancer treatments 6. How is cancer treatment chosen? 7. Surgery 8.
Radiotherapy: overview 9. Radiotherapy: side effects 10. Chemotherapy:
overview 11. Chemotherapy: side effects 12. Hormone therapy Section 3:
Supportive and palliative care 13. What is palliative care? 14. Principles
of palliative care 15. Palliative care: who and when? Section 4: Cancer
pain 16. What is pain? 17. What sorts of pain are there? 18. When a patient
is in pain, what should I do? 19. Drugs used to treat pain 20. Isn't
morphine dangerous? 21. What do I do if the pain is getting worse? Section
5: Symptoms 22. How can I help a patient who is constipated? 23. What can I
do when a patient is nauseated or vomiting? 24. How can I help a breathless
patient? 25. How can I help a patient with fatigue and weakness? 26. What
can I do when a patient does not want to eat or drink? 27. Maintaining an
environment for eating 28. How can I help the patient with mouth problems?
Section 6: Communication 29. Why is communication so important? 30. What
can I do to relieve a person's anxiety? 31. How do I answer a difficult
question? 32. What about breaking bad or difficult news? 33. How can I help
an angry person? 34. How can I help a withdrawn patient? 35. How can I help
a confused patient? 36. Do children understand what is going on? 37. How
does illness affect how we see ourselves? 38. Identifying distress when
communication is poor Section 7: Dying and bereavement 39. What is loss and
grief? 40. How can I support the patient, partner and relative? 41. How do
I help with a dying patient's distress? 42. What do I do when a patient
dies? 43. Death of a patient's friend or relative 44. Supporting staff
after a patient has died 45. Complicated grief Section 8: Spirituality and
equality 46. Fostering hope 47. What is spirituality? 48. How can I help
someone with a different faith to mine? 49. How can I avoid discrimination?