Heart Failure: A Clinical Nursing Handbook (Wiley Series in Nursing) - Softcover

Nicholson, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470057602 ISBN 13: 9780470057605

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience, 2007

Synopsis

Heart Failure: A Clinical Nursing Handbook provides a much-needed introductory text to heart failure for students and nurses new to the area as well as an invaluable source of information in daily clinical practice for more experienced nurses, who are regularly seeing patients with heart failure.

About this title

Review:

"This book is easy to read, despite having minimal pictures and diagrams. It would be a helpful tool for students, newly qualified nurses and any practitioner requiring a refresher or update on heart failure." (British Journal of Perioperative Nursing, June 2009)

This useful handbook introduces the reader to key issues in enhancing the care of patients with heart failure. (British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, July 2008)

"An absolute must for any practitioner involved in running a heart failure service and should also be on the shelf of every university library, coronary care unit, medical unit and GP surgery." (Nursing Standard, May 2008)

From the Back Cover:

Caring for people with heart failure is challenging and with the numbers of patients increasing every year, healthcare professionals are under pressure to provide appropriate, clinically and cost effective heart failure services. Heart Failure: A Clinical Nursing Handbook offers practical information that considers concerns raised by patients, questions asked by student nurses and clinical issues that arise frequently. The introduction examines the epidemiology, physiology, causes and outcomes of heart failure, whilst continuing chapters explore:

• Diagnosis and assessment: past medical history, the role of clinical assessment, medication reviews and the use of investigations.
• Treatment: the impact of education and lifestyle, exercise physiology, the role of medicines and invasive procedures and end stage heart failure.
• Policy and service issues: the historical perspective, specialist services, funding and patient participation and caseload management.

Also discussed is the setting up and running of a heart failure service - the processes, documents, staffing, costs, data handling and business case issues that need to be understood. Practical techniques and tips to support patient understanding, minimise adverse events and treat side effects are also given to help the reader in their practice.

This concise handbook is ideal for clinicians caring for patients with heart failure, pre-registration nursing students, qualified nurses on cardiology courses and community matrons undertaking advanced practise courses.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0470057602
• ISBN 13: 9780470057605
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272