Diabetes - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 1st Edition

by Joan R. S. McDowell, MN, RGN, SCM, DN, RNT, Florence Brown, MPhil, PGDip, RGN, RMN, RHV and David Matthews, BSc, MB, ChB, FRCP

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

ISBN: 9780702063831

Publication Date: 01-18-2017

Page Count: 316

Imprint: Churchill Livingstone

List Price: $38.99

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Key Features
- The comprehensive text establishes ‘why' as well as ‘what' you need to know
- The focus on community ensures its relevance
- Case study scenarios provide practical content, centred on people with diabetes
- Issues relating to ethnic minorities are incorporated throughout
- The evidence base ensures the latest research is incorporated and relates it to clinical practice
- Useful references and websites encourage wider reading
New to This Edition

• Fully updated content to include new information and developments in clinical practice
• Case study scenarios have been expanded to enhance the usefulness of the book
• Issues relating to ethnic minorities will be incorporated throughout the book
• All references updated and useful websites added
Contents

1. What is diabetes?

2. Diagnosis and screening for diabetes

3. Psychological care

4. The person with type 2 diabetes

5. The person with type 1 diabetes

6. Food for life

7. Monitoring diabetes

8. Cardiovascular risk reduction

9. Microvascular disease

10. Foot care

11. Education for life

12. Improving care

Index
Authors

Joan R. S. McDowell, MN, RGN, SCM, DN, RNT, Head of Division of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK, Florence Brown, MPhil, PGDip, RGN, RMN, RHV, Diabetes Nurse Specialist, North Glasgow University NHS Trust, Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow, UK and David Matthews, BSc, MB, ChB, FRCP, Consultant Physician, Monklands Hospital, Airdrie, UK

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