Physician & Patient, Nurse & Patient, Pathology, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Coping & Healing, General & Miscellaneous - Nursing
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Overview
Completely rewritten to include the most recent research and nursing strategies, the 3rd edition expands nurses' perceptions of persons with long-term health problems in a way that emphasizes patient and family power resources. The book includes nursing assessment, diagnosis, interventions, conceptual models, and related research.Understanding patients' sense of powerlessness; analysis of coping skills; coping w. specific chronic health problems.
Editorials
Booknews
Examines theories related to coping and powerlessness, and presents creative nursing strategies and a prototypical plan for decreasing powerlessness in chronically ill people and their families. This third edition is rewritten to include the most recent research and nursing strategies, with an emphasis on patient and family power resources. New to this edition are chapters on stress and coping, chronic sorrow, courage in chronic illness, and empowering people with AIDS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
March 1, 1992
Publisher
Philadelphia : F.A. Davis Co., c1992.
Pages
433
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780803661929