Long-Term Conditions: A Guide for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 144433249X ISBN 13: 9781444332490

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

Synopsis

Long Term Conditions: A Textbook of Principles and Practice is a comprehensive new textbook for all nursing and health care students that explores the key issues surrounding caring for patients with chronic diseases or long term conditions. User friendly in style, this book includes case studies in each chapter, which will not only link theory to practice but to specific conditions, learning outcomes, and highlighted further reading & useful websites, in order to facilitate additional understanding of the issues.

About this title

About the Author

SUE RANDALL is Senior Lecturer and Pathway Leader for Long-term Conditions in the Department of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Care at Coventry University, where she teaches across pre-registration, undergraduate and postgraduate nursing.

HELEN FEN is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Care at Coventry University. Her main responsibility is pre-registration and undergraduate teaching. Helen has experience of both caring for and teaching about patients with long-term conditions.

From the Back Cover

Long-term Conditions
A GUIDE FOR NURSES AND HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS

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

From the Inside Flap

Long-term Conditions
A GUIDE FOR NURSES AND HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 144433249X
• ISBN 13: 9781444332490
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Randall Sue, Ford Helen