Dr. Lowey works with both juniors and seniors in the traditional Nursing program, teaching Community Health Nursing and Nursing Research. She earned her PhD in Health Practice Research from the University of Rochester and was awarded a Claire M. Fagin Fellowship from the Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Program for her post-doctoral work. Improving care at the end of life, with a particular focus on symptom management, is the focus of Dr. Lowey’s research. The majority of her clinical practice has been as a community health hospice nurse providing care for dying patients and their loved ones.
Table of Contents
Part I. Anticipation
1. A Historical Overview of End-of-Life Care
2. Types and Variability within Illness Trajectories
3. Conceptual Frameworks Guiding Death & Dying
4. Models of Organized End-of-Life Care: Palliative Care vs. Hospice
5. Initiating Conversations about Goals of Care
Part II. In the Moment
6. Management of Pain and Physical Symptoms
7. Management of Emotional and Spiritual Distress
8. Ethical Concerns in End-of-Life Care
9. Care at the Time of Death
10. Nurse–Patient–Family Communication
Part III. Afterwards
11. Diversity in Dying: Death across Cultures
12. Grief and Bereavement
Reviews available here: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/nursing-care-at-the-end-of-life-what-every-clinician-should-know
- Subject:
- Applied Science
- Health, Medicine and Nursing
- Material Type:
- Textbook
- Provider:
- State University of New York
- Provider Set:
- OpenSUNY Textbooks
- Author:
- Susan E. Lowey
- Date Added:
- 12/14/2015