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Bowel Continence Nursing
Editors: Christine Norton PhD, MA, RN and Sonya
Chelvanayagam MSc, RN, RMN
xii + 289 pages, colour illustrated, 246 x 184mm, threadsewn limp binding,
ISBN 0-906584-52-3, 2004
£35.00 (UK postpaid £38.00)
This book is written for nurses and allied health professionals working with patients with disordered bowel function. It provides the basis for a detailed understanding of normal as well as disordered bowel function, and the causes of faecal incontinence and constipation. The authors have adopted a deliberately practical style so that the book can be used on a daily basis in clinical practice – in almost every health care setting there will be patients who can benefit from the care described.
The aim is to prepare the reader to be able to undertake a full and knowledgeable assessment of a patient and refer appropriately for further investigations. Care, ranging from simple dietary advice to information about sophisticated modern surgical techniques, can then be planned to fit that individual’s symptoms and needs. The multidisciplinary team of editors and contributors are ideally placed to pull together information from a wide variety of sources and distil this knowledge into one volume.
Christine Norton read history at Cambridge and trained as a nurse at St George’s Hospital, London. She has worked with incontinence since 1979 and was the first Director of the Continence Foundation, the UK national charity which she founded in 1992. In 1995 she was appointed as nurse specialist in faecal incontinence at St Mark’s Hospital, Northwick Park, and nurse consultant (bowel control) at the same hospital in 2001. She gained her PhD from London University in 2001 and in 2002 was appointed Honorary Professor of Nursing in the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing, King’s College, London.
Sonya Chelvanayagam qualified first as a registered mental health nurse and subsequently as a registered general nurse. She has worked in a range of different settings for patients with either a physical or mental illness or a combination of physical symptoms and mental health problems. However, most notably she developed a mental health nurse service within a specialist liaison mental health team for patients attending HIV/GUM services. In 1998 she joined St Mark’s Hospital, Northwick Park, working with patients with faecal incontinence as a research assistant to Christine Norton. In 1999 she gained her MSc in mental health studies at King’s College, London and is now a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health at the University of Hertfordshire.
