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• Chapter 1 Setting the scene
• Chapter 2 Managing the needs of family caregivers
• Chapter 3 Principles of effective communication
• Chapter 4 Advance Care Planning
• Chapter 5 Delivering palliative approaches in different care contexts
• Chapter 6 Integrated Care Pathways
• Chapter 7 Principles of Symptom Management
• Chapter 8 Best practice in pain management
• Chapter 9 Managing pain
• Chapter 10 Complex pain problems & treatment challenges
• Chapter 11 Managing nausea and vomiting
• Chapter 12 Managing constipation
• Chapter 13 Understanding Depression
• Chapter 14 Understanding Delirium and Confusion
• Chapter 15 Managing myoclonus, tremors and muscle spasms
• Chapter 16 Managing Lymphoedema
• Chapter 17 Managing Hypercalcaemia of Malignancy
• Chapter 18 Managing oral hygiene
• Chapter 19 Caring for people with Dysphagia
• Chapter 20 Managing Breathlessness
• Chapter 21 Cough and Haemoptysis
• Chapter 22 Explaining and exploring cachexia, anorexia and fatigue
• Chapter 23 Continual Subcutaneous Infusion: using a Syringe Pump
• Chapter 24 Emergencies: Superior Vena Cava Obstruction
• Chapter 25 Emergencies: Haemorrhage
• Chapter 26 Emergencies: Malignant spinal cord compression
• Chapter 27 Chemotherapy
• Chapter 28 Radiotherapy
• Chapter 29 Approaches in Heart Failure
• Chapter 30 Approaches to Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Chapter 31 Approaches in Motor Neurone Disease
• Chapter 32 Approaches for people receiving dialysis
• Chapter 33 Approaches for people with progressive kidney disease: a non-dialytic pathway
• Chapter 34 Care of the patient following a Stroke
• Chapter 35 Principles of palliative care for older people
• Chapter 36 Care of the person with Dementia
• Chapter 37 Care for people with Mental Illness
• Chapter 38 Care for people with Learning Disabilities
• Chapter 39 Care for the homeless person
• Chapter 40 Care for people in prison
• Chapter 41 Understanding rehabilitation in palliative care
• Chapter 42 The social worker
• Chapter 43 The Occupational Therapist
• Chapter 44 The physiotherapist
• Chapter 45 Complementary and supportive therapy
• Chapter 46 The clinical nurse specialist
• Chapter 47 The advanced nurse practitioner
• Chapter 48 The Nurse Consultant
• Chapter 49 The Chaplain
• Chapter 50 The Medical Consultant
• Chapter 51 Stress in palliative care nursing
• Chapter 52 Responses to Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
• Chapter 53 Withdrawing and withholding Life-Sustaining care
• Chapter 54 Recognising and planning for the terminal phase of life
• Chapter 55 Changing goals of care at end-of-life
• Chapter 56 Managing of respiratory secretions at the end-of-life
• Chapter 57 Care at the moment of death
• Chapter 58 Spiritual perspectives at end-of-life
• Chapter 59 Bereavement