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Hospice Care Planning: An Interdisciplinary Guide
SEPTEMBER 2000, VOL 72, NO 3
instruction sheets. As this manual was a joint effort by many contributors, there often are several versions of discharge information sheets. Having multiple resources in one manual allows users to see the similarities and differences in discharge instructions, and at the same time look at various designs of discharge instruction sheets. If you use this manual as a reference to develop your own instruction sheets, you may select from several ideas to fit the needs of your organization. Those performing or assisting with a procedure for the first time could use this manual as a resource to quickly assemble information to share with patients on the procedure and discharge care. This manual also would be helpful in the comprehension of specific procedures. Many of the patient information sheets have diagrams that allow the reader to visualize the procedure. A wealth of information is contained in this manual. It is clearly written, easily understood, and designed for ease of use. Several of the discharge instruction sheets are written in Spanish, recognizing diverse patient populations. A facility with an established set of patient information sheets could use this information for benchmark comparisons, and a new facility would find it a wonderful resource for developing information to share with patients. This book is available from
Aspen Publishers, 200 Orchard Ridge Dr, Suite 200, Gaithersburg, MD 20878; (800) 234- 1660.
pudding) from the University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Cancer Pain Institute, and the World Health Organization. CAROL KITZROU Hospice Cure Planning is very RN, CNOR easy to use and the care plans are LASERCOORDINATOR well thought out and ready to use. ST LUKE'SMEDICAL CENTER The tabs are large (ie, almost three MILWAUKEEinches) and overlap each other. This makes the chapter headings HOSPICE CARE PLANNING: AN difficult to read at a glance. To INTERDISCIPLINARY GUIDE, first quickly identify a chapter or page, ed one must refer to the table of conBy Cynthia L. Frozena, Maryann tents. The pagination system used Hurtt is somewhat confusing as some 1999,314 p p page numbers were missing in my $129 loose-leaf binder copy. Overall, I would recommend the book for teams involved his book comes ready to in hospice care. The positions assemble with a three-ring referred to in this book include binder and 19 tabs. Aspen bereavement coordinator, chapPublishers offers insert updates to lain, hospice aide, physician, readers when a form included nurse, occupational therapist, with the purchase is completed physical therapist, speech theraand returned. The book is not pist, social worker, volunteer, and light; after assembly it weighs volunteer coordinator. Each chapapproximately four Ibs. It ter is brief, contains useful inforincludes 17 chapters that cover mation that is succinctly broken hospice; the client and family down into functional care plans members; home management; (ie, problems, goals, interventions, comfort; gastrointestinal, muscudisciplines involved, evaluation), loskeletal, neurological, respirato- and can be used as a workable ry, skin, urinary, and circulatory team tool on an ongoing basis. systems; circulatory problems; This book is available from hospice emergencies; socializaAspen Publishers, 200 Orchard tion; emotional problems; sexual- Ridge Dr, Suite 200, ity; grief and loss; and spirituality. Gaithersburg, MD 20878; (800) The book also includes a section 234- 1660. on pain with excellent resources COLLEEN LINDELL (eg, sample pain flow chart, analRN, MHSA, CLNC gesic ladder, equianalgesic conPRES~DENT version guide, principles of pain MED-~EGAL~NET, INC management, a recipe for power OSCEOLA, WlS
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instruction sheets. As this manual was a joint effort by many contributors, there often are several versions of discharge information sheets. Having multiple resources in one manual allows users to see the similarities and differences in discharge instructions, and at the same time look at various designs of discharge instruction sheets. If you use this manual as a reference to develop your own instruction sheets, you may select from several ideas to fit the needs of your organization. Those performing or assisting with a procedure for the first time could use this manual as a resource to quickly assemble information to share with patients on the procedure and discharge care. This manual also would be helpful in the comprehension of specific procedures. Many of the patient information sheets have diagrams that allow the reader to visualize the procedure. A wealth of information is contained in this manual. It is clearly written, easily understood, and designed for ease of use. Several of the discharge instruction sheets are written in Spanish, recognizing diverse patient populations. A facility with an established set of patient information sheets could use this information for benchmark comparisons, and a new facility would find it a wonderful resource for developing information to share with patients. This book is available from
Aspen Publishers, 200 Orchard Ridge Dr, Suite 200, Gaithersburg, MD 20878; (800) 234- 1660.
pudding) from the University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Cancer Pain Institute, and the World Health Organization. CAROL KITZROU Hospice Cure Planning is very RN, CNOR easy to use and the care plans are LASERCOORDINATOR well thought out and ready to use. ST LUKE'SMEDICAL CENTER The tabs are large (ie, almost three MILWAUKEEinches) and overlap each other. This makes the chapter headings HOSPICE CARE PLANNING: AN difficult to read at a glance. To INTERDISCIPLINARY GUIDE, first quickly identify a chapter or page, ed one must refer to the table of conBy Cynthia L. Frozena, Maryann tents. The pagination system used Hurtt is somewhat confusing as some 1999,314 p p page numbers were missing in my $129 loose-leaf binder copy. Overall, I would recommend the book for teams involved his book comes ready to in hospice care. The positions assemble with a three-ring referred to in this book include binder and 19 tabs. Aspen bereavement coordinator, chapPublishers offers insert updates to lain, hospice aide, physician, readers when a form included nurse, occupational therapist, with the purchase is completed physical therapist, speech theraand returned. The book is not pist, social worker, volunteer, and light; after assembly it weighs volunteer coordinator. Each chapapproximately four Ibs. It ter is brief, contains useful inforincludes 17 chapters that cover mation that is succinctly broken hospice; the client and family down into functional care plans members; home management; (ie, problems, goals, interventions, comfort; gastrointestinal, muscudisciplines involved, evaluation), loskeletal, neurological, respirato- and can be used as a workable ry, skin, urinary, and circulatory team tool on an ongoing basis. systems; circulatory problems; This book is available from hospice emergencies; socializaAspen Publishers, 200 Orchard tion; emotional problems; sexual- Ridge Dr, Suite 200, ity; grief and loss; and spirituality. Gaithersburg, MD 20878; (800) The book also includes a section 234- 1660. on pain with excellent resources COLLEEN LINDELL (eg, sample pain flow chart, analRN, MHSA, CLNC gesic ladder, equianalgesic conPRES~DENT version guide, principles of pain MED-~EGAL~NET, INC management, a recipe for power OSCEOLA, WlS
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