Product Description: A comfortable way to have an advance talk with your parents about their wishes for life support, funerals, and other aspects of end-of-life healthcare. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In Being Present: A Nurse s Resource for End-of-Life Communication, authors Marjorie Schaffer and Linda Norlander offer strategies to help nurses talk with patients and families about their needs, hopes, and wishes as they face their own death or that of a loved one...read more

Product Description: They moved from the bustle of the city to rural Minnesota in 1980 seeking fresh air and the country life. Imagining Lake Wobegon and the joys of going back to nature, they bought a house with ten acres of woods, a septic tank and a mosquito-breeding swamp...read more

Caring for patients at the end of life s journey is challenging, but rewarding. To Comfort Always: A Nurse s Guide to End-of-Life Care prepares nurses to care for dying patients and their families by providing a primer that is both practical and insightful. From emotional needs such as relief of suffering to physical needs such as relief of pain, To Comfort Always supplies nurses what they need to know to deliver holistic, effective care. Linda Norlander brings her expertise in end-of-life care to this book that will serve as a valuable resource for nurses committed to comforting patients and families at one of life s most moving passages.