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Communication in Palliative Nursing: The COMFORT Model

Publication Year:
2020
Edition:
2nd
Author:
Wittenberg, Elaine; Goldsmith, Joy V.; Ragan, Sandra L.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN:
978-0-19-006132-6
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Presents the COMFORT Model, a theoretically-grounded and empirically-based model of palliative care communication.

Built on over a decade of communication research with patients, families, and interdisciplinary providers, and reworked based on feedback from hundreds of nurses nationwide, the chapters outline a revised COMFORT curriculum: Connect, Options, Making Meaning, Family caregivers, Openings, Relating, and Team communication. Based on a narrative approach to communication, which addresses communication skill development, this volume teaches nurses to consider a universal model of communication that aligns with the holistic nature of palliative care. This work moves beyond the traditional and singular view of the nurse as patient and family educator, to embrace highly complex communication challenges present in palliative care-namely, providing care and comfort through communication at a time when patients, families, and nurses themselves are suffering.

In light of the vast changes in the palliative care landscape and the increasingly pivotal role of nurses in advancing those changes, this second edition provides an evidence-based approach to the practice of palliative nursing. Communication in Palliative Nursing integrates communication theory and health literacy constructs throughout, and provides clinical tools and teaching resources to help nurses enhance their own communication and create comfort for themselves, as well as for patients and their families.
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Platform:
OvidSP
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Product Type:
Book
Author:
Wittenberg, Elaine; Goldsmith, Joy V.; Ragan, Sandra L.
ISBN:
978-0-19-006132-6
Specialty:
  • Home Care/Hospice
  • Palliative Medicine
  • Terminal Care Nursing
Language:
English
Edition:
2nd
Pages:
328
Publication Year:
2020

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