Long-Term Conditions: Nursing Care and Management - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405183381 ISBN 13: 9781405183383

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

Synopsis

"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 is a comprehensive, practical guide for nurses and healthcare professionals on the care and management of people with chronic illness. It explores case management, individual care and management, 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 long-term conditions currently resulting in most hospital admissions: diabetes, respiratory, 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

About this title

About the Author

Kerri Wright is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Health, Social Care and Psychology at the University of Greenwich. She is a qualified district nurse and has a particular interest in nursing in the community setting.

From the Back Cover

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

From the Inside Flap

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405183381
• ISBN 13: 9781405183383
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 306
• Editor: Meerabeau Liz