ABSTRACT
Since this book has been directed chiefly at nurses, it may be thought to be implicit within the book that nurses are the ideal people to undertake patient education. In Chapters 1 and 6 it was noted that care for those with a chronic illness represents the vast majority of the health care required today. All people with a chronic condition will require a minimum of some information, while others will benefit from extensive education programmes which may well involve cognitive, psychomotor and attitudinal dimensions in order to undertake self-management effectively.
