Narrative Based Healthcare Sharing: Sharing Stories - A Multiprofessional Workbook - Softcover

Greenhalgh, Trisha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0727917188 ISBN 13: 9780727917188

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Synopsis

This is a workbook for health professionals working with diabetic patients. It is based on the experiences of one group of health care workers in an inner city area. It illustrates how using individual patients' stories can inform and help health care workers to understand and manage their patients' difficulties better. In this way it has similar aims to the narrative based medicine books. It also provides the interactive learning element with suggested learning objectives, assignments and further reading in each unit.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Narrative Based Health Care: Sharing Stories recounts the experiences of a group of patients undergoing treatment for diabetes, may of whom are poor, socially isolated, and unable to communicate their fears and anxieties to health professionals.

The book is a practical and highly accessible supporting tool for GPs, nurses and health professionals interest in professionals development and improving services for patients. The innovative approach employed by Narrative Based Health Care is not limited to the understanding of diabetes and will therefore be of interest to all health professionals interested in addressing the clinical and service needs for any complex health problem.

The book covers a wide range of experiences, including:

• Learning about diabetes
  
• The person with newly diagnosed diabetes
  
• Diabetes in the family
  
• Check-ups and visits to the doctor
  
• Medication
  
• Supporting positive lifestyle choices
  
• Loneliness and lack of support
  
• Communicating across cultures
  
• Educating and supporting other health professionals
  
• Diabetes and women's health

About the Author:

Trisha Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Health Care and Director, Healthcare Innovation and Policy Unit, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0727917188
• ISBN 13: 9780727917188
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 104