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  • Book
    editors, Lorraine Holtslander, Shelley Peacock and Jill Bally.
    Summary: This book provides an unique resource for registered nurses working in hospice palliative care at home and for the community, outside of acute care settings and also incorporates literature related to palliative care in acute health care settings, as part of the overall services and supports required. Very few resources exist which specifically address hospice palliative care in the home setting, despite the fact that most palliative care occurs outside acute care settings and is primarily supported by unpaid family caregivers. An overview of the concerns for individuals and families, as well as specific nursing interventions, from all ages would be an excellent support for nursing students and practicing registered nurses alike. The book structure begins with a description of the goals and objectives of hospice palliative care and the nursing role in providing excellent supportive care. Chapters include research findings and specifically research completed by the authors in the areas of pediatric palliative care, palliative care for those with dementia, and the needs of family caregivers in bereavement. Interventions developed by the editors are provided in this book, such as the “Finding Balance Intervention” for bereaved caregivers; the “Reclaiming Yourself” tool for bereaved spouses of partners with dementia; and The Keeping Hope Possible Toolkit for families of children with life threatening and life limiting illnesses. The development and application of these theory-based interventions are also highlighted. Videos and vignettes written by family caregivers about what was helpful for them, provide a patient-and family-centered approach. The book will benefit nursing students, educators and practicing registered nurses by providing information, theory, and evidence from research. -- Provided by publisher.

    Contents:
    Chapter 1. Overview of Hospice Palliative Care in a Community and Home Setting (theoretical and conceptual models, populations, ages, diseases, transitions, bereavement support)
    Chapter 2. The Formal Caregiver Perspective
    Chapter 2. Global Perspectives from the UK
    Chapter 3. The Family Caregiver Perspective
    Chapter 3. Global Perspectives from Europe
    Chapter 4. Global Perspectives: Nigerian Context
    Chapter 5. Palliare (UK/Europe)
    Chapter 6. Global Perspectives from Canada
    Chapter 7. Global Perspectives: New Zealand
    Chapter 8. Global Perspectives: US
    Chapter 9. Global Perspectives: Conclusions
    Chapters 10. Finding Balance
    Chapter 11. Keeping hope possible
    Chapter 12. Reclaiming Yourself
    Chapter 13. Living with Hope
    Chapter 14.COPE intervention for caregiver
    Chapter 15. Dementia
    Chapter 16. Heart Failure
    Chapter 17. Older Adults with Cancer
    Chapter 18. Long Term Care
    Chapter 19. Prisons
    Chapter 20. Pediatric Home Care
    Chapter 23. Looking ahead.
    Digital Access Springer 2019
  • Article
    Hinnebusch AG, Clark VE, Klotz LC.
    Biochemistry. 1978 Apr 18;17(8):1521-9.
    The reassociation kinetics have been measured for radioactive Escherichia coli DNAs (tracers) of various average single-strand lengths reassociated alone and in the presence of excess unlabeled DNA (driver) of two different average lengths. Hydroxylapatite binding was used to follow the reaction time course. The length-dependence of the rate constant determined in the tracer self-reassociation reactions is in agreement with the square-root dependence previously determined (Wetmur, J. G., & Davisond, N. (1968) J. Mol. Biol. 31, 349-370) using optical methods to follow the time course. However, for the driver-tracer reactions, where the radioactive DNA reassociates largely with DNA of a different average length, the dependence of the rate constant upon average tracer length is increased and approaches an L to the first power dependence. In 0.18 M Na+, the variation of the rate constant for tracer reassociation with the lengths of the reassociating strands has been shown to fit the simple equation k = (9.0077).(L T 0.55 + 1/L D 0.55), where k is the observed rate constant in L mol-1 s-1 and L(T)and L(D) are the weight average tracer and driver lengths, respectively, in nucleotides. This dependence suggests that the rate of nucleation of two free strands is proportional to the sum of the reciprocals of the hydrodynamic radii of the two strands.
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