Symptom Management Algorithms

Excellent resource for those caring for patients with distressing symptoms in hospice, cancer or community settings. Includes detailled nursing assessments of etiologies of distressing symptoms, treatment guidelines using the algorithmic model for pain, dyspnea, diarrhea, and all other distressing conditions as well as common issues such as skin care, seizure protocols, management of falls, including lots of tables for adujuvant therapies, scales to use for documentation of care, and non pharmacologic interventions. Caring communication, spiritual assessment and guidelines as well as cultural sensitivity guides are included. An awesome practical pocket sized book for anyone in the hospice and palliative care field.

Dame Cicely Saunders, founder and president of St. Christopher's Hospice in London (1967), shares her vision of hospice and palliative care, and discusses lessons to be learned from the dying.

Accompanying CD-ROM contains customizable patient self-care guides.