Concepts in palliative care -- Essential communication skills -- Ethical considerations -- Legal considerations -- Evidence-based care -- Palliative drug therapy -- Psychosocial, spiritual, and cultural care -- Patients with cancer -- Patients with heart failure -- Patients with neurologic disease -- Patients with pulmonary disease -- Patients with renal disease -- Care of a dying child -- Family and caregiver care -- Support systems -- When death nears -- Bereavement care -- Issues in acute care settings -- Documenting care -- Living with dying.