{"title":"Pulmonary rehabilitation – an essential part of respiratory care","authors":"Heather Henry","doi":"10.12968/pnur.2023.34.7.260","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Thousands of hospital admissions for respiratory patients could be avoided if all those eligible for pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) completed a programme, and yet uptake remains poor. Here Heather Henry outlines what PR has to offer and how to make a referral Offering people with long term respiratory disease pulmonary rehabilitation is part of good long term condition management general practice nurses. This article explains why it is important, what it includes, the referral criteria and how GPNs may support people on completion.","PeriodicalId":79471,"journal":{"name":"Advanced practice nursing quarterly","volume":"603 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Advanced practice nursing quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.12968/pnur.2023.34.7.260","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Thousands of hospital admissions for respiratory patients could be avoided if all those eligible for pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) completed a programme, and yet uptake remains poor. Here Heather Henry outlines what PR has to offer and how to make a referral Offering people with long term respiratory disease pulmonary rehabilitation is part of good long term condition management general practice nurses. This article explains why it is important, what it includes, the referral criteria and how GPNs may support people on completion.