What Nurses Know... Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Couverture souple

Steefel, Lorraine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1932603875 ISBN 13 : 9781932603873

Editeur : Demos Medical Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is sometimes dismissed as an ""all in your head"" illness. There are no tests or other physical signs to diagnose CFS/ME. A diagnosis is given when a health care practitioner has ruled out other causes for the cluster of symptoms. The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention considers CFS/ME to be a real and debilitating illness. Still individuals with this disease remain frustrated by the lack of belief and support from health care providers, families and friends. They continually doubt themselves and ask ""What's wrong with me?"", ""Am I crazy?"", ""Am I imagining these problems?""

Bringing validation to the sufferers of CFS/ME What Nurses Know...Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sheds new light on this condition and its symptoms from a trusted source: Nurses. Simply organised and clearly written What Nurses Know...Chronic Fatigue Syndrome provides individuals, their families, friends, caregivers and healthcare practitioners the answers they need and want.

Special features include:

• Numerous call-out boxes with ""What Nurses Know""
• Definitions of common terms
• Resources, online tools and specific websites to help those living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Lorraine Steefel's interest in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) developed when her daughter Trisha was diagnosed at age 12 with the illness. As a parent and an RN, she searched for information necessary to help her daughter cope with and manage it. She became a volunteer trainer in the program ""Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS): A Diagnostic & Management Challenge,"" prepared and sponsored by the CFIDS Association of America, and presented this program to RNs and other healthcare professionals across the country. She became a member of and volunteer for the NJCFSA, Inc. (New Jersey CFS Association), on whose behalf she has provided talks to healthcare groups and the general public. Her factsheet Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Information for Family, Friends and Caregivers appears on the organization's website.

Lorraine is a professional writer, published widely in various publications including: Clinical Nurses Specialist: The Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice; RN; Creative Nursing: A Journal of Values, Issues, Experience & Collaboration; Nursing Spectrum; Healthcare Travel; Alternative and Complementary Therapies; New Jersey Monthly; Ophthalmology Times; as well as in newspapers and in healthcare websites online.

As an adjunct assistant professor in the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program at UMDNJ School of Nursing, Newark, NJ, a major portion of her time is spent assisting nursing faculty members and students to write for scholarly publications. A 2009 graduate of the DNP program at UMDNJ School of Nursing, Lorraine earned her MSN from Kean University, Union, NJ and MA from The New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ. She holds a Bachelor of Arts, from St. Joseph College, Emmitsburg, MD; an A.A.S. in Nursing from Maria College, Albany, NY; a NJ school nurse certification from The College of NJ, Ewing, NJ; an advanced certification in Transcultural Nursing (CTN-A) from the Transcultural Nurses Society, Livonia, MI; and a certificate in journalism from New York University. She is a member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, the National League for Nursing, the American Nursing Association, and the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. She serves on the Boards of the New Jersey League for Nursing and the Transcultural Nursing Society, New Jersey Chapter. She is the diversity editor for The Journal of the Philippine Nurses Association of America and serves on the Editorial Board of Creative Nursing: A Journal of Values, Issues, Experience & Collaboration.

Lorraine lives in Morganville, NJ, with her husband Peter. She has two adult children, Kimberly and Trisha, and son-in-law, Russ.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Demos Medical Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1932603875
• ISBN 13: 9781932603873
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible