Long Term Conditions
Nursing Care and Management
1. Edition June 2011
304 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
Long Term Conditions is a comprehensive, practical guide for nurses and health care professionals on the care and management of people with chronic illness. It explores case management, individual care and management, looks at the role of the 'expert patient', quality of life issues, counseling skills, self-management, and optimum self-care. Long Term Conditions discusses the three main long term conditions currently resulting in most hospital admissions; diabetes, respiratory, and coronary heart disease (CHD), with a focus on empowering the patient to self manage.
This book is a very welcome tool, which will enable health professionals to understand the complexity, challenge and rewards of proactively managing long-term conditions. Putting this knowledge into skilled practice, in partnership with patients, will transform the lives of many individuals and their families, and thus fulfil the fundamental purpose of nursing.
--From the Foreword by Professor Rosemary Cook CBE, Director, the Queen's Nursing Institute and Visiting Professor of Enterprise, University of Northumbria
Long-Term Conditions: Nursing Care and Management is a comprehensive, practical guide for nurses and other health care professionals on the care and management of people with chronic illness. It explores case management, individual care and management, looks at the role of the 'expert patient', quality of life issues, counselling skills, self-management and optimum self-care. Long-Term Conditions discusses the three main physical long-term conditions currently resulting in most hospital admissions: diabetes, respiratory disease and coronary heart disease, with a focus on empowering the patient to self manage.
Key Features:
* A comprehensive guide to the care and management of long-term conditions
* Focuses on the management of the conditions from the patients' perspective
* Practical and accessible in style
Notes on contributors.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
1 Long-term conditions in perspective (Liz Meerabeau).
2 Case management (Kerri Wright).
3 Changing approaches to the management of long-term conditions (Kerri Wright).
4 Sociological insights (Liz Meerabeau).
5 Psychological effects of long-term conditions (Ben Bruneau).
6 Counselling skills (Val Sanders).
7 Living with long-term conditions: Tommy's story (Tommy Magee).
8 Self-management and current health care policies (Kerri Wright).
9 Managing common symptoms of long-term conditions (Kerri Wright, Pia Sweet, Natasha Ascott, Harry Chummun and Jenny Taylor).
10 Medicines management (Shivaun Gammie).
11 Management of heart failure (Susan Simpson).
12 Management of respiratory disease (Liz Nicholls).
13 Management of diabetes (Lynne Jerreat).
Index.
"This comprehensive text explores key concepts, with clear explanations, diagrams and case studies. I recommend it to newly qualified and experienced nurses, as well as nursing students...This excellent book takes a needs-led approach rather than a disease-focused medical one. It is full of useful information and thought-provoking ideas." (Nursing Standard, 2011)