Tuberculosis: A Foundation for Nursing and Healthcare Practice [Paperback]

Robert J. Pratt (Author), John M. Grange (Author), Virginia G. Williams (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0340645687 | ISBN-13: 978-0340645680 | Publication Date: March 24, 2005 | Edition: 1

The World Health Organization estimates that 200 million people will develop tuberculosis between 2000 and 2020 and that 35 million of these will die. The unique contribution of nurses to prevention and care is enhanced by their comprehensive understanding of the current evidence and guidance for best practice in caring for patients with tuberculosis. Tuberculosis: a foundation for nursing and healthcare practice provides a clear and up-to-date insight into the issues surrounding the current global pandemic of tuberculosis and provides guidance on the nursing role in diagnosis, prevention, treatment and care. In this stimulating text, assumptions are challenged, new paradigms are explored and nurses and other practitioners are encouraged to apply and adapt core principles to their own care environments. This text offers nurses and other healthcare practitioners an essential reference for the planning and implementation of confident, competent and relevant individualized care for an increasing number of patients with tuberculosis.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Anyone involved in treating tuberculosis will benefit from this book, whether they live in rich countries or poor. This book contains an enormous amount of information but is well organised and the material clearly explained. -- Roger Woodruff, Director of Palliative Care, Aust 20050503 It is heartening ... to find a new book covering this specialist field, and even more so to find that it is primarily aimed at nurses, who now have an increasingly important role in the control and management of TB. However, other health professionals working with patients with this disease will find the book useful, as it contains in-depth chapters about epidemiology, microbiology and immunity aswell as a comprehensive glossary and an extensive list of reference. -- Nursing Times Vol 101 No 42 20051018

About the Author

Robert J. Pratt CBE FRCN RN RNT DN(Lond) BA MSc is Professor of Nursing and Director of the Richard Wells Research Centre in the Faculty of Health and Human Sciences at Thames Valley University London, London, UK John M. Grange MSc MD is a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Infectious Diseases and International Health at the Royal Free and University College Medical School, Windeyer Institute for Medical Sciences, London, UK Virginia G. Williams RN HV BNurs MSc is Head of the Nursing Division for the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (UNION), and Lecturer in the Public Health and Primary Care Unit at the St. Bartholomew's School of Nursing and Midwifery, City University, London, UK

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Hodder Arnold Publishers; 1 edition (March 24, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0340645687
• ISBN-13: 978-0340645680
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,861,162 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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