Long Term Conditions – A Guide for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals
A Guide for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals
Samenvatting
Long Term Conditions is a comprehensive textbook for all nursing and healthcare 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 at 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
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
<p>2. Chronic pain: Living with chronic pain</p>
<p>3. Depression and long–term conditions</p>
<p>SECTION TWO: EMPOWERMENT</p>
<p>4. Adaption in long–term conditions: the role of stigma particularly in conditions that affect appearance</p>
<p>5. Self–management in long–term conditions</p>
<p>6. Assistive technology– a means of empowerment</p>
<p>7. Risk and empowerment in long–term conditions</p>
<p>SECTION THREE: CARE MANAGEMENT</p>
<p>8. Care coordination for effective long–term condition management</p>
<p>9. Rehabilitation in long–term conditions</p>
<p>10. Palliative care in long–term conditions: pathways to care</p>