Based on best-evidence and clinical practice guidelines, this text presents comprehensive, targeted interventions responsive to the needs of palliative and hospice patients and family. Each chapter contains compassionate, timely, appropriate, and cost-effective care for diverse populations across the illness trajectory.

Previous edition published in 2015.

Palliative Care Nursing -- Palliative Care: Responsive to the Need for Healthcare Reform in the United States -- Interprofessional Collaboration -- Ethical Aspects of Palliative Care -- Legal Aspect of Palliative Care and Advance Care Planning -- Culture and Spirituality as Domains of Quality Palliative Care -- Intimacy and Sexual Health -- Family Caregivers -- Communicating With Seriously Ill and Dying Patients, Their Families, and Their Healthcare Practitioners -- Health Promotion and Rehabilitation in Palliative Care -- Loss, Grief, and Bereavement -- Holistic Integrative Therapies in Palliative Care -- Cancer -- End-Stage Heart Disease -- Chronic Lung Disease -- Neurological Disorders -- End-Stage Renal Disease -- End-Stage Liver Disease -- Palliative Care and HIV/AIDS -- Pain: Assessment and Treatment Using a Multimodal Approach -- Dyspnea -- Anxiety, Depression, and Delirium -- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and End-of-Life Care -- Gastrointestinal Symptoms-- Fatigue -- Minimizing Skin Alterations -- Peri-Death Nursing Care.