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9780340645680

Tuberculosis A Foundation for Nursing and Healthcare Practice

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  • ISBN13:

    9780340645680

  • ISBN10:

    0340645687

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-03-24
  • Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
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Summary

Tuberculosis provides a clear and up-to-date insight into the issues surrounding the current global pandemic of tuberculosis and provides guidance on the nursing role in diagnosis, prevention, treatment and care. In this stimulating text, assumptions are challenged, new paradigms are explored and nurses and other practitioners are encouraged to apply and adapt core principles to their own care environments. This text offers nurses and other healthcare practitioners an essential reference for the planning and implementation of confident, competent and relevant individualised care for an increasing number of patients with tuberculosis.

Table of Contents

List of contributors vi
Foreword vii
Preface viii
Acknowledgements ix
Dedication x
1 The story of an evolving pandemic
1(24)
2 The bacterial cause of tuberculosis and related diseases
25(16)
3 The respiratory system
41(10)
4 The transmission of mycobacteria
51(10)
5 Immunity and immunopathology in tuberculosis
61(20)
6 Vaccination against tuberculosis
81(14)
7 Diagnosis of tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases
95(14)
8 Pulmonary tuberculosis
109(10)
9 Extrapulmonary tuberculosis
119(12)
10 Tuberculosis and the HIV/AIDS pandemic 131(12)
11 Human disease due to the environmental mycobacteria 143(6)
12 The treatment of tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases 149(20)
13 The Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis 169(8)
14 Adherence to antituberculosis therapy 177(12)
15 The stigma of tuberculosis 189(8)
16 The contribution of nurses to tuberculosis control - a public health perspective 197(12)
11 The individualized care of patients with tuberculosis 209(54)
18 Nurse-led case management 263(24)
19 The tuberculosis infection control plan - risk assessment 287(6)
20 The tuberculosis infection control plan - risk management 293(26)
Glossary 319(14)
Index 333

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