To Comfort Always

Focusing on the nurse's role as clinician, advocate, and guide, this brief handbook provides a holistic and team-based approach to end of life care. It covers advance care planning, pain management, physical symptom management, suffering, active dying, the period following the death, pediatric issues, cultural sensitivity, and hospice. Norlander is a nurse and the director of the Minnesota Partnership to Improve End of Life Care. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.