This text provides evidence-based principles for practice for chronic illness and disability. It provides a solid theoretical and practical foundation for students in their 2nd and 3rd years. The book will included a holistic framework for major and common chronic illness and disability.

Chronic Illness and Disability: Principles for Nursing Care

Chang, Esther; Johnson, Amanda, 1960-

Sydney ; New York: Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier

Elsevier Churchill Livingstone

Elsevier Australia

Australia, Australia

Sydney, ©2008

1, PT, 2008

xiv, 466 pages : 25 cm
People with chronic illness are living longer and are more often managing their illness, with the help of family and carers, within their home and community environments. Chronic Illness and Disability is a new comprehensive text that provides principles for practice supported by the evidence from Australian and international literature for chronic illness, disability nursing. The text includes a holistic framework for major and common chronic illness, disability and palliative care for Australian and New Zealand nurses, and has been written by a multidisciplinary team of expert clinicians and academics from across the region
Includes bibliographical references and index
Section 1: Frameworks for chronic illness and disability -- 1. Chronic illness and disability: an overview -- 2. Role of the interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary team -- 3. Spirituality and the nurse: engaging in human suffering, hope and meaning -- 4. Psychosocial care -- 5. Stigmatisation of people living with a chronic illness and/or disability -- 6. Sexuality in chronic illness and disability -- 7. Developmental and intellectual disability -- 8. Management of chronic pain -- 9. Rehabilitation for the individual and family -- 10. Impact of obesity on chronic illness and disability -- 11. Palliation in chronic illness -- Section 2: Principles of practice for supportive care -- 12. Schizophrenia -- 13. Depression: its scope, impacts, treatment and nursing management -- 14. Advanced dementia -- 15. Stroke (cerebrovascular accident) -- 16. Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease -- 17. Chronic asthma -- 18. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease -- 19. Ischaemic heart disease -- 20. Chronic heart failure -- 21. Chronic kidney disease -- 22. Chronic diseases of the bowel -- 23. Non-melanocytic skin cancers and melanoma -- 24. Ageing and disability (osteoarthritis and osteoporosis) -- 25. Diabetes -- 26. HIV/AIDS -- 27. Cancer

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