SECTION I: UNDERSTANDING PALLIATIVE CARE 1.The Interprofessional Practice of Palliative Care Nursing -- 2.Palliative Care: Responsive to the Need for Health Care Reform in the United States -- 3.Ethical Aspects of Palliative Care -- 4.Legal Aspects of End-of-Life Decision Making -- SECTION II: CARING FOR THE WHOLE PERSON IN PALLIATIVE CARE 5.Culture and Spirituality as Domains of Quality Palliative Care -- 7.Family Caregivers -- 8.Communicating With Seriously Ill and Dying Patients, Their Families, and Their Health Care Practitioners -- 9.Health Promotion and Rehabilitation in Palliative Care -- 10.Loss, Suffering, Bereavement, and Grief -- 11.Holistic Integrative Therapies in Palliative Care -- SECTION III: PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF DYING 12.Cancer -- 13.End-Stage Heart Disease -- 14.Chronic Lung Disease -- 15.Neurological -- 16.End-Stage Renal Disease -- 17.End-Stage Liver Disease --18.Palliative Care in HIV/AIDS -- SECTION IV: PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF PALLIATIVE CARE: SYMPTOMS 19.Pain Assessment and Pharmacological / Nonpharmacological Interventions -- 20. Dyspnea -- 21.Anxiety, Depression, and Delirium -- 22. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and End-of-Life Care -- 23.Gastrointestinal Symptoms -- 24.Fatigue -- 25.Skin Alterations -- 26. Peri-Death Nursing Care