Coping with Chronic Illness: Overcoming PowerlessnessCompletely 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. |
Contents
Patient Power Resources | 3 |
Analysis of Coping with | 19 |
Coping with Specific | 44 |
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