Full Description
Delivering effective and responsive person-centred care is a key requirement of nurses' professional practice and a core skill nurses must develop throughout their degree. This book explains and demonstrates how nurses can transform the ideals of person-centred care into reality for patients throughout their healthcare journey, in a variety of settings. Through the use of varied case studies, this book applies this practice to all fields of nursing, allowing students on any course, at any point in their degree to find useful guidance within its pages.
Contents
Part 1Chapter 1: Person centred care: concepts, origins and problemsChapter 2: A pragmatic approach to person-centred carePart 2: How to deliver person centred careChapter 3: Helping patients to make sense of their circumstancesChapter 4: Helping patients cope with change and anxietyChapter 5: Helping patients learn about treatment, care and recoveryChapter 6: Helping patients to rehabilitateChapter 7: Helping patients to build and sustain self-care motivationChapter 8: Helping patients and relatives amidst dyingChapter 9: Looking forward to the future
