Being Present : A Nurse's Resource for End-of-Life Communication

Author(s) M. Schaffer & L. Norlander
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Publisher Sigma Theta Tau International- Honor Society of Nursing
Year 2009
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This E-book, based on nursing research, offer strategies to help nurses talk with patients and families about their needs, hopes, and wishes as they face their own death or that of a loved one.  Nurses will learn how to: respond to patient and family wishes and hopes, cope with conflict, help the patient say goodbye at the end of life, and incorporate cultural needs in end-of-life care.


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