End of Life: Nursing Solutions for Death w Dignity
This professional clinical guide presents nursing administrators and nurses in acute care agencies, nursing homes, hospice, and palliative care settings with detailed implementation strategies for accommodating dying persons and their loved ones as they make the transition from physical life. It presents the need for and the development of the Golden Room concept: a place for dying that facilitates a dignified, peaceful, and profound experience for dying persons and their loved ones.
This book presents a practical solution on multiple levels that will benefit all involved-patient, family, nurses, administrators, policy makers, and insurance companies. It presents the theoretical frameworks for end-of-life care and how the Golden Room concept fits into these frameworks.
Published in partnership with the Watson Caring Science Institute, this unique resource:
- Advocates the use of Golden Rooms, which provide dignified, private, and safe settings for death and dying.
- Presents various cases that illustrate the need for a dignified death, as well as strategies on how to provide for this dignified death.
- Provides questions of concern after each case scenario, suitable for class discussion or personal reflection.
- Offers cost-effective end-of-life solutions for families, the medical establishment, and insurance companies.
Highly recommended by all of us here at Caregiver Revolution!
