Narrative Based Healthcare Sharing Stories - A Multiprofessional Workbook

by Greenhalgh, Trisha; Collard, Anna

• ISBN13: 9780727917188
• ISBN10: 0727917188
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: BMJ Books

Summary

This is a workbook for health professionals working with diabetic patients. It is based on the experiences of one group of health care workers in an inner city area. It illustrates how using individual patients' stories can inform and help health care workers to understand and manage their patients' difficulties better. In this way it has similar aims to the narrative based medicine books. It also provides the interactive learning element with suggested learning objectives, assignments and further reading in each unit.

Author Biography

Trisha Greenhalgh: GP and Professor of Primary Care UCL, Highgate Hill, London, UK Anna Collard: Social Action for Health, London, UK

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vi
Introduction	vii
About this workbook	vii
About the Diabetes Sharing Stories Project	viii
About storytelling	ix
About learning in groups	xvi
Group work objectives	xx
Unit 1 Learning about diabetes care - where should we start?	1	(5)
Unit 2 The diagnosis of diabetes	6	(5)
Unit 3 Diabetes in the family	11	(8)
Unit 4 Check-ups and visits to the doctor	19	(7)
Unit 5 Medication	26	(6)
Unit 6 Supporting positive lifestyle choices	32	(9)
Unit 7 Loneliness and lack of support	41	(6)
Unit 8 Communicating across cultures	47	(6)
Unit 9 Educating and supporting other health professionals	53	(5)
Unit 10 Diabetes and women's health	58	(7)
Appendix Template for writing up a story	65	(4)
Index	69