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| Palliative care: new challenges for advanced practice nursing | | Author(s) | Jeanne M Weggel |
| Journal title | The Hospice Journal, vol 12, no 1, 1997 |
| Pages | pp 43-56 |
| Source | Haworth Document Delivery Center, The Haworth Press, Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA. |
| Keywords | Terminal care ; Nursing ; Nurses ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The terminally ill are emerging as a specialised patient population requiring the expanded skills and knowledge of advanced practice nurses, who can follow patients across a variety of settings in an integrated system of health care, and over a continuum of living and dying. This paper examines the concept of palliative care and the advantages of advanced practice nurse leadership in this area. Four major criteria in the American Nurses Association's `Nursing: a social policy statement' (1995) serve as a framework: the area lies within the scope of nursing practice; a documented need exists; there is a body of knowledge on which to base the practice; and the field of nursing would be diminished if the need were ignored. The author maintains there is sufficient evidence for the creation of a new role: advanced practice nurse in palliative care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-971209216 A |
| Classmark | LV: LQ: QTE: 7T |
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