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Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know
Author(s): Susan E. Lowey, The College at Brockport, SUNY
Updated: Jan 28, 2020
Description: Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know should be an essential component of basic educational preparation for the professional registered nurse student. Recent studies show that only one in four nurses feel confident in caring for dying patients and their families and less than 2% of overall content in nursing textbooks is related to end-of-life care, despite the tremendous growth in palliative and end-of-life care programs across the country. The purpose of this textb...[more]
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