Children's Palliative Nursing Care

Nursing is an essential component of children’s palliative care and palliative care is an essential aspect of nursing. Yet the complex inter disciplinary nature of palliative care brings into sharp focus the work nurses undertake with others in delivering palliative care. This is, however, a book by nurses for nurses.

This comprehensive text presents the essential knowledge and skills required by nurses providing this invaluable care to a growing number of children. The chapters are mapped to the Children’s Palliative Care Education and Training standards. These are endorsed by the International Children’s Palliative Care Network, a major partner with the World Health Organisation in the push to make children’s palliative care a universal health right.  In three sections the book covers public and universal care, core nursing and specialist care. The chapters can be read in isolation or cumulatively to move from engagement in public health and public understanding of palliative care through to delivering nursing care. Topics range from managing symptoms and End-of- Life, to education, research and issues of quality and leadership.

Uniquely each chapter has been written by a team of authors who come from both high income and low/middle income countries. This makes this not just a book by nurses for nurses but a global book for global nursing practice.