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Renal nursing : care and management of people with kidney disease
Now in its fifth edition, Renal Nursing continues to be the essential evidence-based guide to nephrology and kidney care for nurses and allied health care professionals. This comprehensive text examines the stages of chronic kidney disease, pre-dialysis care, acute kidney injury, renal replacement therapy, renal nutrition, renal care in children and young people and more. * Offers thorough coverage of all major aspects of kidney care * Includes updated content on current practice, changes in policies, care and management, with the latest research evidence and current NICE guidance on renal replacement therapy * Has an innovative chapter on patient and public involvement in kidney care Renal Nursing is an indispensable resource for nurses working in nephrology, dialysis and transplantation, nurses in post-registration renal courses, student nurses in renal wards, specialist renal dietitians, pharmacists and other allied health professionals in related fields.
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Finding Dignity at the End of Life
Finding Dignity at the End of Life discusses the need for palliative care as a human right and explores a whole-person methodology for use in treatment.
The book examines the concept of palliative care as a holistic human right from the perspective of multiple aspects of faith, ideology, culture, and nationality. Integrating a humanities-based approach, chapters provide detailed discussions of spirituality, suffering, and healing from scholars from around the world. Within each chapter, the authors address a different cultural and religious focus by examining how this topic relates to questions of inherent dignity, both ethically and theologically, and how different spiritual lenses may inform our interpretation of medical outcomes.
Mental health practitioners, allied professionals, and theologians will find this a useful and reflective guide to palliative care and its connection to faith, spirituality, and culture.
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Palliative care : a guide for health social workers
\"This book is an innovative, practical approach to equipping health social workers with theoretical and clinical tools to integrate palliative care principles into practice with individuals, families, teams and institutions. The editors and authors seek to honor the coherence of palliative care and social work, re- awakening the potential of thousands of health social workers to lead and inform the IOM mandate for high quality, humane patient- centered family focused care\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Correction: Prognostic tools or clinical predictions: Which are better in palliative care?
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0249763.].
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INTER-RATER AGREEMENT BETWEEN PALLIATIVE CARE CLINICANS WHEN EVALUATING ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHS TO QUANTIFY THE DEGREE OF FAECAL SHADOWING VISIBLE
The validity of extrapolating the appearance of a plain abdominal radiograph as a marker of the severity of constipation in palliative care is questionable. Recently, poor inter-rated agreement between 4 clinician's reports of faecal shadowing was demonstrated. Acknowledged weaknesses of this work included the number of participating clinicians was small (n=4) and their clinical experience disparate. This study's aim was to investigate whether a larger group of palliative care clinicians' training and experience affected their levels of agreement of their assessments of faecal shadowing visible on plain abdominal radiographs Six Australian hospital-based palliative care services were approached. This resulted in 50 clinicians (medical specialists, registrars, junior medical officers (RMO) and nurses) each consenting to individually report the degree of faecal shadowing in the right colon, left colon and sigmoid on the same 10 radiographs. De-identified demographic details were summarised and Fleiss's Kappa (FK) was used to evaluate concordance between multiple raters within clinical groupings. The regression coefficient was calculated to assess whether there was any differences between the group scores of the most experienced clinicians and the least experienced clinicians When the medical clinicians' reports were examined, very little agreement was identified either within (table 1) or between groups (table 2), regardless of the level of experience of the doctors. Regardless of the level of experience, clinicians fail to agree when quantifying the appearance of faecal shadowing on plain abdominal radiographs making this an unreliable investigation on which to base treatment decisions.
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