Nurse to Nurse: Palliative Care
Author: Margaret L Campbell
A unique "mentor in a pocket" handbook covering the most emotionally-trying experience nurses face
From a world recognized expert on care for the dying, comes the first pocket-sized reference for generalist nurses on palliative care. This handy, portable reference assists nursing in dealing with one of the most emotionally trying situations they face in clinical practice.
Part of McGraw-Hill's Nurse to Nurse series, this title includes PDA download of the entire text, vignettes, nursing alerts that provide just-in-time information on complex or particularly important aspects of patient care, and clinical pearls which provide the benefit of other nurses' valuable experience in dealing with end-of-life care. Coated flex-binding repels stains.
The new Nurse to Nurse series is specifically designed to simulate the teaching experience nurses learn best from: trusted mentors carefully explaining what they must do in specific clinical situtions. Written in a consistent, single-author voice, this series brings the wisdom and experience of some of the foremost experts to non-specialist nurses in clinical care.
Margaret Campbell, R.N., Ph.D.(c), F.A.A.N., is Associate Director for Research at the Center to Advance Palliative Care Excellence, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, at Wayne State University, and Nurse Practitioner, Palliative Care and Clinical Ethics at the Detroit Receiving Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. She has published more than forty journal articles, six book chapters, and the book Foregoing Life-Sustaining Therapy: How to Care for the Patient Who is Near Death. She has served appointmentson various boards, including the Last Acts Task Force on Palliative Care through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing.
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No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause
Author: Barbara Seaman
For nearly as long as women have been around, they have been going through menopause. It is a bodily process as old as human birth, death, and of course, menstruation. Like many normal biological events, menopause was gradually medicalized, and with the rise of pharmaceutical medicine, women and their doctors were convinced that it was an "estrogen deficiency disease" that could be treated by supplementing the body's declining estrogen levels with hormones. By 2002 hormone treatment had been on the market for more than fifty years when doctors and women alike were shocked by the results of a massive clinical trial, the Women's Health Initiative: women taking hormones had more heart attacks, breast cancer, strokes, pulmonary embolisms, and blood clots than women who did not, and patients were left scrambling to find new and sometimes difficult answers to their menopause and midlife health questions.
In The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause, Barbara Seaman, a legendary figure in the women's health movement, and Laura Eldridge have written a comprehensive, easy-to-use resource that will give you all the information you need to make smart and informed decisions that will put you in control during this time of transition—medically, psychologically, sexually, and even financially.
With the latest research on everything from hormone replacement therapy to skin creams to preventing osteoporosis, The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause is the definitive manual on this important subject. You'll find out which changes are expected and natural and which can be a cause for concern; how hormonal shifts can affect your heart, your sex life, and your mood; and what you can do toaddress these issues. Whether the authors are discussing the risk factors for heart disease, the benefits of lifting weights, or if you should consider a hysterectomy, they offer unbiased, straightforward information and advice with a signature blend of wisdom and sensitivity.
Perhaps most important, you'll learn how to evaluate what you read in magazines, hear on the news, and are told by your doctor, so you can distinguish between solid facts and dubious claims. By learning how to read and evaluate scientific studies and becoming familiar with what goes on behind the scenes in research labs, at doctors' offices, and at pharmaceutical companies, you will be able to become your own advocate. The next time you go to the doctor's office, you will know how to make the most of your visit and leave feeling confident, informed, and in command. There is no one way to experience menopause and no single way to handle the challenges it can present, but as a no-nonsense patient, you will have the tools you need to make decisions that are right for you.
Publishers Weekly
Recently deceased activist and cofounder of the National Women's Health Network, Seaman (The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women) reported on women's health for more than three decades. Here, she and associate Eldridge articulate the myths, controversies, statistics, economics and prevailing protocols that feed continued confusion about what, they argue, is an overmedicalized but profoundly natural experience. With the abrupt end in July 2002 of one segment of the hormonal trial of the Women's Health Initiative (begun in 1992), the authors state, many women, formerly led to view hormone therapy as a cure-all for a multitude of symptoms and conditions (hot flashes, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis and memory loss, for example), began looking critically at recommended tests, surgical procedures and drugs. Seaman touches on nearly every aspect of women's health (nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress relief, vitamins and herbs, aging, appearance, etc.) as she helps readers frame key questions, evaluate research studies, consider treatment options and move gracefully through menopause and the years leading up to and following it. This volume sheds an invaluable light on a long-cloudy subject. (July)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Table of Contents:
Introduction 1Are you going through menopause? 11
Flashing Back: A Brief History of Menopause 13
At First Glance: Perimenopause, Beginnings and Ends 24
Seeing Red: Excessive Bleeding, Menorrhagia, and Perimenopause 35
"Is It Hot in Here, or Is It Just You?": Hot Flashes, Night Sweats, and Other Things That Keep You Up at Night 46
The Science of Sleep: Night Sweats, Wakefulness, and Getting Some Shut-Eye 66
Getting It On as You Get On: Menopause, Aging, and Sexuality 83
The Swing versus the Slump: Menopause, Mood, and Depression 104
The Secret Hystery: The Truth About Hysterectomy and Oophorectomy 119
Down Under: Vaginal and Reproductive Health as You Age 133
Menopausal approaches 147
The World Is Flat: The New and Changing Role of Hormone Therapy in Menopause 149
Menopause, Nnaturally?: What We Know about the Wild West of Natural, Alternative, and Bioidentical Menopause Medicine 196
The Skinny on Menopausal Weight: Is Gain Really Just Part of the Change? 215
Minding Your Peas and Caveats: Menopause Nutrition and Eating Healthfully in the Second Half of Life 232
Change of Pace: Menopause and Exercise 243
The pause 257
Mindful Menopause: Memory, Cognition, and Alzheimer's Disease 259
Loving the Skin You're In: Skin, Hair, and Midlife Beauty 279
The Great Pretender: Thyroid Disease and Menopause 299
Taking Heart: Menopause and Heart Disease 312
Close to the Bone: Osteoporosis, Bone Density, and Menopause 343
The Golden Bowl: Incontinence and Menopause 374
Meno-politics 385
Male Menopause: How the Other Half Changes 387
Half the Sky: Menopause Around the World 391
Afterword: becoming a no-nonsense patient: a crash course in the basics of health literacy 397
Notes 421
Index 463
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