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Long Term Conditions: A Manual for General Practice Nurses
£11.30
Are you a health professional needing an update on Long Term Conditions? At last, all the essential information is available in one concise resource. This book is a practical, down-to-earth manual. It should help your consultation skills, it has ideas for your revalidation portfolio and it could increase your income. Written for general practice nurses, the book may also be useful for the wider healthcare team, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, healthcare assistants and students. Chapter 1 Consultation SkillsChapter 2 Health PromotionChapter 3 COPDChapter 4 AsthmaChapter 5 Prevention of Cardiovascular DiseaseChapter 6 HypertensionChapter 7 Heart FailureChapter 8 Atrial FibrillationChapter 9 Stroke and TIAChapter 10 DiabetesChapter 11 EpilepsyChapter 12 Learning DisabilityChapter 13 HypothyroidismChapter 14 OsteoarthritisChapter 15 OsteoporosisChapter 16 DementiaChapter 17 Mental HealthChapter 18 Professionalism and TrustThe paperback and the ebook are being sold to raise funds for the charity Médecins sans Frontières (MSF). A minimum of £4.00 from every purchase will be donated to MSF, so PLEASE BUY NOW.
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Additional information
| Publisher | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (14 Nov. 2016) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 228 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1537177605 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1537177601 |
| Dimensions | 15.24 x 1.32 x 22.86 cm |
by Fran
This book fills a real need in primary care in a very direct and engaging style. It addresses consultation skills and motivational techniques needed by practice nurses with suggested scripts and tips to practice. The familiar chronic diseases are all covered, including mental health.as are management and professional issues. The book will be an asset to any practice but with so much useful information in one volume, the problem will be finding out who had it last!
by Carol
Purchased this book on beginning the role of community associate matron. This book has certainly helped a good deal and has signposted to alternative sites which are both informative and beneficial.
by Kathryn Such
This advice in this book follows the medical model of care for patients with long-term conditions. I think it should be made clear that the author opens with a misleading statement that long-term conditions ‘can be treated but not cured’. I was disappointed to read this, as the current leading evidence is overwhelmingly clear that long-term conditions are symptoms of poor diet and lifestyle and cannot only be prevented, but halted and even reversed. I agree that the NHS has not moved the medical model, implemented at its inception, and that the protocols for ‘treatment’ of chronic disease patients has not improved beyond this model. Practice Nurses are highly unlikely to work outside their scope of practice, so in that instance, the book would be helpful. The advice is for medicines management and how to follow protocol (performance targets), rather than helping individuals free themselves from the burden of these diseases. I am obviously making a clear distinction between acute or new diagnosis and long-term management.
by AmyLH
Super handy book for me starting my new career in practice nursing, thanks
by Mrs W Minns
Found this book really useful when learning about management of long term conditions, recommended
by Naomi123
Great little book for anyone in starting out in primary care.
by GillIan Smith
Very helpful
by SculptorLondon
Great book for new General Practice Nurses. I’ve read the chapters on consultation skills and hypertension so far. It presents a useful overview and introduction to many long-term conditions with red flags to look out for, some of the drugs used, etc., following NICE guidelines. It gives pointers and tips learned from practical experience. Websites for further reading and references are given for each chapter, as well as a brief ‘pause for thought’ section relating learning and practice to revalidation, or resources you can produce for patients for example.