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 love it!!!
Such an excellent and handy resource. I wish I could afford one for all of my case managers! Rhi a DHS in GA
Symptom Management Algorithms a Handbook for Palliative Care
This symptom management handbook is a very valuable resource for the health professional working in areas that require a higher understanding of pain control outside of the regualted medical-surgical and emergency hospital environment. Pain in oncology, burn, chronic disease, wound and hospice patients is a complex issue for both the patient and the healthcare provider. The algorithms help professionals look scientifically at "if" "then" issues. "If" this happens "then" this is what can be done for the situation. The table of contents tells the reader immediately that every known topic that causes pain is discussed. Then each algorithm presents the user with the drugs used, the assessment needed for the situation, and the non-pharmacologic interventions. There is even a section on the rapid use of spiritual care. If you are a lay person dealing with chronic pain or you are caring for a loved one in pain this handbook will give you understanding why the professionals involved make the decisions they make. Finally the Appendix is full of useful tools to further expertise in the area of chronic pain control. (The size of the handbook slips easily in a uniform pocket.)
From the Librarian - Manager of Knowledgebase Information Services at Portsmouth Regional Hospital, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Disappointed and appalled
I am not writing a review about the book. I am writing a comment about the seller here on this site. I think it is really sad and quite ridiculous that they have chosen greed over helping the dieing. $98.89 for a book that normally sells for $20, is beyond ridiculous. Shame on you!!!
I hope your books rot on your bookshelves. I will be waiting for the newest editions that will be released in November.
 Symptom Management Algorithms: A Handbook for Pallieative Care
Terrible, terrible, terrible!!! I never received this book. I am a hospice nurse whose patients depend upon me for the comfort that this book guides me to give them, but what kind of comfort can I give if I do not have this book in hand as a reference. Many, many weeks, if not months ago I ordered this book, but I have yet to receive it.
I will not accept the excuses that it was not available, because I have seen it advertised in my nursing journals from lots of book outlets. To keep me as the always-true-blue-absolutely-loyal-customer whose book purchasing monoply you have enjoyed for countless eons, and to keep me from purchasing this book, and taking my business to other outlets, I strongly suggest that you folks get off your collective duffs and ship this book immediately.
Perhaps I have not received this volume because I used your "orders >$25.00 get free shipping" option, and your free shipping is by way of BF Egypt, using slow-mo salamanders as carriers?
Well, you'd better whip up those pathetic little salamandor buggers into supersonic action and get that book to me ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you fail to deliver this book ASAP, I will curse you with the ultimate of all curses: May the flees of one-thousand camels invade your armpits, plus all your most sensitive body parts/orifices below.
You have exactly one week from today, 8 March 97, to respond, or get ready to scratch!
TTFN, Wendy
excellent pocket reference
This is an excellent pocket reference for hospice and palliative care nursing. I am purchasing it for all my field staff!
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