Psychosocial care. Hospice and palliative care -- Psychosocial needs, problems, and interventions: the individual -- Psychosocial needs, problems, and interventions: the family -- Spiritual care: needs, problems, and interventions -- Spiritual care: faiths -- Sociocultural care -- Grief and bereavement care -- Ethics -- Stress and health care providers -- Pain and symptom management. Pain: principles of management -- Pain: assessment -- Management of pain -- Neurologic symptoms -- Respiratory and cardiovascular problems -- Skin complications -- Oral problems --Gastrointestinal problems -- Genitourinary problems -- Dehydration, fatigue, and sleep -- Oncologic emergencies and paraneoplastic syndromes -- Imminent death: the last 48 hours -- Advanced cancer: metastatic spread, common symptoms, and assessment. Major organs (Lung, pancreas, liver, brain): metastatic spread, symptoms, and assessment -- Female reproductive cancer (breast, ovarian, uterine): metastatic spread, common symptoms, and assessment -- Gastrointestinal cancer (colorectal, stomach, esophageal, and oral): metastatic spread, common symptoms, and assessment -- Urinary tract cancer (kidney, bladder and prostate): metastatic spread, common symptoms and assessment -- Blood/lymph and skin cancer: (non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, leukemia, multiple myeloma, melanoma): metastatic spread, common symptoms and assessment -- Management of other terminal illnesses. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome -- Degenerative neurologic disorders: multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and myasthenia gravis -- Alzehimers disease -- End-stage cardiovascular and pulmonary disease.
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