Essentials of nursing practice /
Essentials of nursing practice /
edited by Catherine Delves-Yates.
- Second edition
- Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018.
- xxvi, 786 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes index.
Part A. Learning to be a nurse -- What is nursing and what is a nurse? -- Being a nursing student -- Core academic skills -- Academic writing and assessment skills -- Part B. Professional practice -- Ethics -- Law -- Accountability and professionalism -- Resilience -- The role of the nursing student in effecting change -- Part C. Fundamentals of nursing care -- Delivering effective care -- Introduction to nursing theory -- Value-based, or family centered care -- Patient, service user, family and career perspectives -- Assessment, planning implementation and evaluation (APIE): the process of nursing --
Core communication skills -- Communication and interpersonal skills in challenging circumstances -- Ensuring quality and effective management of risk
-- Record-keeping and documentation -- Clinical decision-making -- Safeguarding -- Promoting health -- Part D. Skills for nursing care -- Infection prevention and control (IPC) -- Aseptic technique and specimen collection -- Clinical measurement pain management -- Pain management -- Skin
integrity -- Safe handling of people -- Emergency care -- Medicines administration -- Assisting patients with their nutritional needs -- Assisting patients with their elimination needs -- Assisting patients with their hygiene needs -- Last offices -- Part E. Context of nursing care -- Introduction to the organization and settings of care -- Introduction to interprofessional working -- Introduction to the psychological context of nursing -- Introduction to the sociological context of nursing -- Introduction to public health -- Introduction to health policy and the political context of nursing -- Introduction to the global context of nursing.
9781526447159 (paperback)
2017958134
Nursing--Study and teaching (Higher)--Great Britain
Nursing--Practice
RT71 / Es7 2018
Includes index.
Part A. Learning to be a nurse -- What is nursing and what is a nurse? -- Being a nursing student -- Core academic skills -- Academic writing and assessment skills -- Part B. Professional practice -- Ethics -- Law -- Accountability and professionalism -- Resilience -- The role of the nursing student in effecting change -- Part C. Fundamentals of nursing care -- Delivering effective care -- Introduction to nursing theory -- Value-based, or family centered care -- Patient, service user, family and career perspectives -- Assessment, planning implementation and evaluation (APIE): the process of nursing --
Core communication skills -- Communication and interpersonal skills in challenging circumstances -- Ensuring quality and effective management of risk
-- Record-keeping and documentation -- Clinical decision-making -- Safeguarding -- Promoting health -- Part D. Skills for nursing care -- Infection prevention and control (IPC) -- Aseptic technique and specimen collection -- Clinical measurement pain management -- Pain management -- Skin
integrity -- Safe handling of people -- Emergency care -- Medicines administration -- Assisting patients with their nutritional needs -- Assisting patients with their elimination needs -- Assisting patients with their hygiene needs -- Last offices -- Part E. Context of nursing care -- Introduction to the organization and settings of care -- Introduction to interprofessional working -- Introduction to the psychological context of nursing -- Introduction to the sociological context of nursing -- Introduction to public health -- Introduction to health policy and the political context of nursing -- Introduction to the global context of nursing.
9781526447159 (paperback)
2017958134
Nursing--Study and teaching (Higher)--Great Britain
Nursing--Practice
RT71 / Es7 2018