Nursing Perspective and Considerations
The purpose of this chapter is to review the nursing perspective in palliative care and some of the important and critical aspects of caring for these patients and their families. The nurse plays a very important as he or she will be the main caregiver wh
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Nalini Vadivelu Jack M. Berger
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Alan David Kaye
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Essentials of Palliative Care
Editors Nalini Vadivelu, MD Department of Anesthesiology Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT, USA
Alan David Kaye, MD, PhD Departments Anesthesiology Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA
Jack M. Berger, MS, MD, PhD Department of Anesthesiology Pain Medicine, and Critical Care Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
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I wish to thank my parents, Major General Vadivelu and Gnanambigai Vadivelu, my husband, Thangamuthu Kodumudi, and my sons, Gopal and Vijay, for their steadfast support. I would also wish to thank my brother, Dr. Amarender Vadivelu, and sister, Suguna Vadivelu, for their inspiration, and my innumerable friends, colleagues, and students who encourage me to reach for heights higher than the day before. –NV I want to thank my wife, Dr. Kim Kaye, for her dedication and love over many decades; my brother, D
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