Living with Chronic Illness and Disability

Living with Chronic Illness and Disability: Principles for Nursing Practice provides the knowledge and skills necessary for nursing and allied health students to provide quality, competent care to people living with a chronic illness or disability.

The text has a strong evidence base, but is founded in reality. It includes practical, useful principles for holistic care, self-management, and a multidisciplinary approach. It also covers a range of issues affecting patients, carers and families, with a focus on empowering individuals as they adjust to the life-changing journey of chronic disease and disability.

Edited by Esther Chang and Amanda Johnson, and written by a multidisciplinary team of expert clinicians and academics, this book will enhance your confidence when caring for people with a range of major and common conditions, including heart disease, stroke, cancer, asthma, diabetes, obesity, dementia, mental illness and palliative care.

SECTION 1: FRAMEWORKS FOR CHRONIC ILLNESS AND DISABILITY
1. Chronic illness and disability: an overview
2. Partnerships in collaborative care 1
Partnerships in collaborative care 2
Partnerships in collaborative care 3
Partnerships in collaborative care 4
Partnerships in collaborative care 5
Partnerships in collaborative care 6
Partnerships in collaborative care 7
Partnerships in collaborative care 8
Partnerships in collaborative care 9
Partnerships in collaborative care 10
Partnerships in collaborative care 11
Partnerships in collaborative care 12
Partnerships in collaborative care 13
Partnerships in collaborative care 14
3. Models of care
4. Spirituality
5. Psychosocial care
6. Stigmatisation of people living with a chronic illness or disability
7. Sexuality
8. Health disparities and people with intellectual and developmental disability
9. Management of chronic pain
10. Rehabilitation for the individual and family
11. Impact of obesity
12. Palliation in chronic illness

SECTION 2: PRINCIPLES FOR NURSING PRACTICE
13. Principles for nursing practice: Schizophrenia
14. Principles for nursing practice: Depression
15. Principles for nursing practice: Advanced dementia
16. Principles for nursing practice: Stroke
17. Principles for nursing practice: Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis and motor neuron disease
18. Principles for nursing practice: Persistent asthma
19. Principles for nursing practice: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
20. Principles for nursing practice: Coronary heart disease
21. Principles for nursing practice: Chronic heart failure
22. Principles for nursing practice: Chronic kidney disease
23. Principles for nursing practice: Chronic diseases of the bowel
24. Principles for nursing practice: Keratinocyte cancers and melanoma
25. Principles for nursing practice: osteoarthritis and osteoporosis
26. Principles for nursing practice: diabetes
27. Principles for nursing practice: HIV/AIDS
28. Principles for nursing practice: Cancer