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Long term conditions

The habitus and field of district nursing: a discussion around its professional status and symbolic capital

District nursing as a field (Figure 1.1) is bound by its relationship to other professional fields as well as the four main nursing fields or branches of nurse education: adult nursing (Figure 1.2a),...

Self-management of long-term conditions: a district nursing perspective of patient engagement

According to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), a long-term condition is one that lasts for over one year and significantly impacts a person's life (NICE, 2016a). Long-term...

Barriers affecting patient adherence to intermittent self-catheterisation

The use of self-catheterisation has grown since the 1970s with the development of the technique of clean intermittent catheterisation. Initially, self-catheterisation was used with paraplegic patients...

Long-term conditions and severe acute respiratory syndrome SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)

In early April 2020, the number of confirmed cases in this pandemic was well over 1 million people worldwide, and this figure is continuing to rise on a daily basis (Johns Hopkins University and...

Management of swallowing problems in community settings

Swallowing is a complex activity required to move food from the mouth to the stomach, involving different muscles and nerves working together, and it requires close coordination between digestive and...

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