Main description:

Long Term Conditions is a comprehensive, practical guide for nurses and health care professionals on the care and management of people with chronic illness. It explores case management, individual care and management, looks at the role of the 'expert patient', quality of life issues, counseling skills, self-management, and optimum self-care. Long Term Conditions discusses the three main long term conditions currently resulting in most hospital admissions; diabetes, respiratory, and coronary heart disease (CHD), with a focus on empowering the patient to self manage.

Contents:

Foreword. Notes on contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1 Long-term conditions in perspective (Liz Meerabeau). 2 Case management (Kerri Wright). 3 Changing approaches to the management of long-term conditions (Kerri Wright). 4 Sociological insights (Liz Meerabeau). 5 Psychological effects of long-term conditions (Ben Bruneau). 6 Counselling skills (Val Sanders). 7 Living with long-term conditions: Tommy's story (Tommy Magee). 8 Self-management and current health care policies (Kerri Wright). 9 Managing common symptoms of long-term conditions (Kerri Wright, Pia Sweet, Natasha Ascott, Harry Chummun and Jenny Taylor). 10 Medicines management (Shivaun Gammie). 11 Management of heart failure (Susan Simpson). 12 Management of respiratory disease (Liz Nicholls). 13 Management of diabetes (Lynne Jerreat). Index.