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Nurse to nurse palliative care

01 March 2010

Nursing Older People

Opinion

This is a timely book covering conditions other than cancer. intended for hospital nurses to enhance previous training and/ or experience, it does this through...

Advance care planning in end of life care

01 September 2011

Nursing Older People

Book Review

This Book reflects the interest in advance care planning based on shared decision making and the recommendation that it becomes an integral part of care for those...

Managing Breathlessness in the Community

28 February 2014

Nursing Older People

Book Review

OLDER PEOPLE become breathless for many reasons, not least the ageing process and a gradual slowing down of exercise capacity. They may also present with the symptom...

Managing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

01 July 2008

Primary Health Care

Book Review

This book purports to follow the patients’ journey from diagnosis to end of life and, by and large, it does, although the path it takes is sometimes convoluted and...

Fast facts: asthma

01 July 2007

Primary Health Care

Book Review

If you want to buy a book that delivers what it promises to deliver in the title then this is the book. Suitable for all practitioners, from the novice to the more...

There’s a lot of it about: acute infections in primary care

01 May 2007

Primary Health Care

Book Review

This book claims to provide all primary health care professionals with a fascinating and useful aid to the diagnosis and management of acute respiratory infections....

Managing Breathlessness in the Community

01 February 2014

Primary Health Care

Book Review

TAKING THE symptom of breathlessness as the starting point in diagnosis, this book recognises that it is the presentation of the symptom that drives the...

Working with Children who Need Long-Term Respiratory Support

01 July 2013

Primary Health Care

Book review

AN ENJOYABLE publication that makes what can be a difficult topic easy to understand and relevant to everyday practice.

Palliative care in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

01 May 2011

Nursing Older People

CPD

This article considers the place of palliative and end of life care in the management of people with end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This...

Helping patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease adhere to regimens

04 June 2010

Primary Health Care

CPD

The management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is complex because people need to make behavioural and lifestyle changes while also taking...