Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781444332490
Year: 2011
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 344


Description:
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