Description
Palliative Care Perspectives
📘 2nd Edition · 2022
Develop a broader understanding of palliative care through a reference that combines symptom-focused topics with communication, psychosocial care, and the realities of clinical practice. The second edition considers both the individual encounter and the systems in which care is delivered.
📚 Inside this eBook
- Illness trajectories, dying, and prognostication
- Pain and non-pain symptom management
- Hydration, nutrition, and antibiotics in end-of-life care
- Psychosocial and spiritual aspects of care
- Communication, palliative care consultation, and service improvement
- Professional burnout and the last 48 hours of life
🔎 Why add it to your reading list?
Its organization supports focused reading on a practical challenge while preserving a wider perspective on serious illness and end-of-life care. Chapters on consultation, burnout, and system improvement extend the discussion beyond symptom management alone.
👩⚕️ Who is it for?
Palliative care trainees, physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, and clinicians who care for people with serious illness.
📖 Book details
- Authors / editors: James L. Hallenbeck
- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Publication year: 2022
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- ISBN: 9780197542910
- Format: English-language PDF eBook



