Palliative Care Nursing, Fifth Edition delivers advanced empirical, aesthetic, ethical and personal knowledge. This new edition brings an increased focus on outcomes, benchmarking progress, and goals of care. It expounds upon the importance of the cross-disciplinary collaboration introduced in the previous edition. Every chapter in Sections I, II, and III includes content written by a non-nursing member of the interprofessional team. 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.

The updated fifth edition includes:
An expanded chapter on palliative care which thoroughly explains up-to-date scope and standards, information on Basic and Advanced HPNA certification, self-reflection and self-care for nurses
A new chapter on Interprofessional Collaboration
Valuable instructor resources including practice problems, PowerPoints, practice tests and test banks