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. Currently $208 on Amazon.com
 
Published in 2007.  In very good condition. 289 pages. 
 
Author:
Professor Christine Norton is a Registered Nurse who has specialised in helping people with incontinence for over 30 years. Her last clinical post was as Nurse Consultant (Bowel Control) at St Mark’s Hospital in Harrow.
Her research concentrates on improving symptoms and quality of life in people with chronic bowel conditions. She leads an NIHR programme on managing fatigue, pain and incontinence in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Other research includes managing constipation, management of neurogenic bowel symptoms and nurse-led interventions for incontinence. She was chair of the NICE guideline on faecal incontinence and has published extensively in a range of nursing and medical journals. She is also passionate about helping nurses to develop as clinical academics.