A Manual For Health Social Workers on Palliative Care: Nursing Studies Guide

A Manual for Health Social Workers on Palliative CareThis comprehensive clinical guide is designed specifically for practicing health social workers in palliative and hospice care· It aims to promote best practices in delivering safe, compassionate care to patients· With a focus on both evaluation and intervention, the manual covers all aspects of providing palliative and hospice care to diverse and vulnerable populations· It offers an overview of common disease manifestations, illness trajectories, symptom management, and recommendations for social work interventions·Organized by body system, this resource is presented in an easy-to-access outline format· Each section includes common diagnoses encountered in palliative and hospice care, complete with definitions, incidence, etiology, pathophysiology, predisposing factors, and subjective and objective data· Diagnostic tests, differential diagnoses, complications, disease-modifying treatments, palliative interventions, prognosis, and recommended social work interventions are also detailed·The manual provides guidelines for referrals in cases of serious illness, as well as general and disease-specific hospice care admission criteria· It includes comprehensive tables of diagnostic tests, disease-specific palliative and symptom management strategies, prognostic and screening tools, patient education resources, and guides for pain management and wound care· Additionally, it offers reproducible handouts for patient and family education·**Key Features:**- Delivers current guidelines for managing symptoms associated with serious illnesses·- Provides an in-depth review of common conditions seen in palliative and hospice care·- Organized by body system for quick and easy information retrieval·- Offers in-depth, evidence-based, and consistently organized disease-specific guidelines·- Presents hospice and palliative care management guidelines tailored for health social workers·- Includes reproducible handouts for patient and family education·- Reviews common procedures used in hospice and palliative practice· Read more