| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
xviii, 416 pages : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Issues in clinical management. Children's understanding of death -- Pain and symptom management -- Psychosocial aspects of serious illness in childhood and adolescence: curse or challenge? -- Caring for children with life-limiting illness and their families: focus on pediatric hospice nursing -- Neonatal death -- Care for the child with HIV infection and AIDS. Support systems. Caring for bereaved parents -- After a child dies: helping the siblings -- Spiritual care of children and parents -- Staff support in pediatric hospice care -- Unpaid staff: the volunteer component -- Lessons in grief: a practical look at school programs -- Therapeutic play and creative arts: helping children cope with illness, death, and grief -- The primary care physician's role. Different contexts, different lessons. Learning from one another: lessons from pediatrics for palliative care -- Palliative care in an inpatient hospital setting -- Ethical decision making at the end of life -- Incorporating children in an adult hospice program -- Death-related literature for children and adolescents: selected, annotated, and with guidelines and resources for adults. |
| Subject |
Hospice Care.
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Child.
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Infant.
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Attitude to Death.
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Grief.
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Hospices (Terminal care) -- organization & administration.
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Terminally ill children -- Care.
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Hospice care.
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| Added Author |
Armstrong-Dailey, Ann.
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Zarbock, Sarah F.
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| ISBN |
0195133307 alkaline paper |
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