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Long-Term Conditions: A Guide for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals
Sue Randall
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Description for Long-Term Conditions: A Guide for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Randall, Sue; Ford, Helen. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: MQC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 189 x 18. Weight in Grams: 812.
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.
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, ... Read more
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
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781444332490
SKU
V9781444332490
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Sue Randall
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Long-Term Conditions: A Guide for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals
“This text would be useful for students and practitioners new to the role.” (Primary Health Care, 1 September 2012) “All healthcare professionals who treat or care for patients with long term conditions should read this book whether they are working in primary, secondary, tertiary care, for the NHS, a hospice, social services or a voluntary organisation.” (Nursing Times, ... Read more