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Provides the student and professional nurse with practical and compassionate guidance in the care of the dying patient. Updates address legal issues; cultural diversity; ethics; research concerning physiological and spiritual matters; and Web and other resources.
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Healing as relationship/sociology of death/goals for comfort in dying/pain mgmt/care of one who is frightened/families.
More Reviews and RecommendationsMelody Olson, RN, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the College of Nursing at the Medical University of South Carolina. She has led a number of research efforts on near-death-experiences and therapeutic touch, and has led a number of seminars on both topics. She is an active member of the American Holistic Nurses Association and a member of the editorial review board of the Journal of Holistic Nursing. She has published widely in both nursing and mutlidisciplinary journals. She is currently active in parish nurse education.