The end of life and end-of-life caregiving -- Hospice and palliative care -- Strategies to stay healthy -- Collaborating with an interdisciplinary team -- Understanding the dying experience -- Connecting and caring presence -- Grief and mourning -- Cross-cultural competency at the end of life -- Ethical issues at the end of life -- Spiritual caring -- Understanding and strengthening families -- Children facing death -- Understanding and anticipating the course of terminal disease -- Comforting and the essentials of pain relief at the end of life -- Medicating for pain at the end of life -- Management of physical nonpain symptoms -- Caring in different settings when death is imminent.
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