Overview
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
The book, Long-Term Conditions: A Guide for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9781444332490 in Paperback by may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
Details
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
04/25/2011
ISBN-13:
9781444332490
Pages:
344
Publisher:
Wiley
