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Titolo: | Long-term conditions [[electronic resource] ] : a guide for nurses and healthcare professionals / / edited by Sue Randall and Helen Ford |
Pubblicazione: | Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.16 |
Soggetto topico: | Long-term care of the sick |
Chronic diseases - Nursing | |
Altri autori: | RandallSue FordHelen <1967-> |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | section 1. Living with a long-term condition -- section 2. Empowerment -- section 3. Care management. |
Sommario/riassunto: | "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"--Provided by publisher. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Long-term conditions |
ISBN: | 1-118-78651-3 |
1-118-27625-6 | |
1-283-40238-6 | |
9786613402387 | |
1-118-27624-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910781555403321 |
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