Palliative Care Medicine Handbook

Palliative care principles look the same in a textbook.
They play out very differently at the bedside of a patient with metastatic cancer than at the bedside of a patient with end-stage heart failure, advanced COPD, or progressive dementia. Generalist training treats symptom management, communication, and ethical decision-making as uniform across every diagnosis. Your patients don't work that way, and this handbook was built to close that gap.
Written for nurses and advanced practice clinicians working across hospital, hospice, outpatient, and long-term care settings, this handbook pairs the foundational skills of palliative care with a disease-specific layer you won't find in general symptom-management guides. Inside, you'll build:

• Core competencies in pain, breathlessness, GI symptoms, delirium, and existential distress that apply across serious illness
• Disease-specific palliative strategies for oncology, heart failure, chronic lung disease, kidney disease, and neurologic decline
• Structured frameworks for serious illness communication, prognostic conversations, and goals-of-care discussions
• Ethical reasoning and equity considerations for the hardest calls you'll face in practice
• Guidance across care settings, hospice transitions, the active dying process, and bereavement support
• A clinical glossary of validated assessment tools you can reference at the point of care

Palliative competency isn't optional anymore. It's an expectation of serious illness care, whatever your specialty or setting.
If you're ready to move past one-size-fits-all symptom management and meet each patient's disease trajectory with the specific clinical reasoning it demands, get your copy of the Palliative Care Medicine Handbook today.