The aging population has only grown since the first edition of this comprehensive and seminal publication released nearly 20 years ago based on the need to humanize rather than medicalize the illness experience for patients palliative care nursing quality care to the end of life fifth edition delves into palliative care beyond the specific diseases affecting the patient. Palliative care nursing quality care to the end of life marianne matzo phd aprn cnp fpcn faan deborah witt sherman phd aprn anp bc achpn faan springer publishing company jun 28 2018 . Palliative care is a philosophy of caregiving that integrates disease modification with supportive compassionate therapies for patients at the end of life. End of life competencies developed by the american association of colleges of nursing serve as the organizing framework for this palliative care textbook spiritual cultural emotional social and physical aspects of care for the patient and family are supported by theory and concepts derived from nursing law ethics and the sciences. Palliative care nursing describes the ethical and legal aspects of palliative and end of life care and presents the process of providing that care within the framework of the whole person including family and caregivers provision of nursing care is divided into 2 sections 1 addressing the physical aspects of dying for particular diagnoses and 2 addressing symptom management for all