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Long-term conditions : a guide for nurses and healthcare professionals / edited by Sue Randall and Helen Ford.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Long-term care of the sick.
- Chronic diseases--Nursing.
- Chronic diseases.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (344 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Long-Term Conditions is a comprehensive textbook for all nursing and health care students and practitioners, that explores the key issues surrounding caring for patients with chronic diseases or long -term conditions. Divided into three sections, this book explores living with a long-term condition; empowerment; and care management. Rather than being disease focused, it looks key issues and concepts which unify many different long-term conditions, including psychological and social issues that make up a considerable part of living with a long-term condition. Within each of the chapters, issues of policy, culture and ethics are intertwined, and case studies are used throughout, linking the concepts to specific diseases. Key features: A comprehensive textbook on the principles and practice of caring for people with long -term conditions User-friendly in style with learning outcomes, further reading, useful websites, and case studies throughout linking to specific conditions Moves away from a disease focused medical model, and takes a needs-led approach Uniquely explores the overarching issues of living with one or more long- term conditions, Focuses on the importance of multi-disciplinary team work and collaborative teamwork in the management of long- term conditions"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- section 1. Living with a long-term condition
- section 2. Empowerment
- section 3. Care management.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613402387
- 9781118786512
- 1118786513
- 9781118276259
- 1118276256
- 9781283402385
- 1283402386
- 9781118276242
- 1118276248
- OCLC:
- 768732315
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