Manual for Palliative Care

A Step-by-Step Guide for Acute Care Nurses

Deliver confident palliative care at the bedside with step-by-step guidance

Acute care nurses manage complex palliative needs in patients, despite often having limited formal training in palliative care. Manual for Palliative Care: A Step-by-Step Guide for Acute Care Nurses provides accessible, evidence-based guidelines for inpatient settings. Written by multidisciplinary authors with clinical and academic expertise, this handbook delivers foundational knowledge for medical-surgical units, emergency departments, intensive care units, and post-surgical units where access to specialty palliative teams may be limited.

Each chapter includes real-world examples and interprofessional perspectives from contributors across the country, addressing the role of the acute care nurse in supporting whole-person palliative care. This includes symptom management, patient and family co