Product Code: 140338
Communication and Care Coordination for the Palliative Care Team: A Handbook for Building and Maintaining Optimal Teams
This text is designed to help form and maintain palliative care teams that survive and thrive. Whether you are starting a new team or hoping to help an existing team, this text addresses aspects of team players, leadership, meetings, organizational culture, and self- and team-care through a combination of empirical data and real voices from healthcare professionals in palliative care practice. By focusing on the individual professional in relation to team health and success, this text shows how to develop high-quality, high-performing palliative care teams.
Key Features:
- Satisfactory and unsatisfactory palliative care experiences
- Stories from nurses, social workers, chaplains, physicians, pharmacists, executives, patients, and families
- Pearls From the Field: Provider and team takeaways
- Best practices of team leaders
- Tips for individuals and palliative care teams to communicate with other providers, departments, and senior leadership
- Discussions on how to improve short-term and long-term functionality
- Outlines to use as predictors of burnout for palliative care professionals and teams
- Self-care and team-care suggestions
- A combination of recent research and theory in an accessible writing style
- Includes podcasts, videos, and case study and self-care plan supplements
ISBN #: 9780826158055
Authors: R. Imes, L. Omilion-Hodges and J. Hester