Clinical Judgement and Decision Making in Nursing (Transforming Nursing Practice Series) - Softcover

Standing, Mooi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 152647834X ISBN 13: 9781526478344

Publisher: Learning Matters, 2020

Synopsis

Clinical decision-making is a vital part of professional nursing care and it is essential that as a student nurse you develop sound judgement and decision-making skills in order to deal confidently with the challenges you will encounter as a registered nurse. By using this book, you will be able to understand, develop and apply these skills in order to practise safely and effectively. The book links theory to realistic student experiences and clinical scenarios to show you how to use these skills in practice.

Key features:

·        Fully mapped to the new NMC standards of proficiency for registered nurses (2018)

·        Contains clinical scenarios demonstrating decision making in practice

·        Helps build confidence in your judgement and decision making skills through interactive activities.

About this title

About the Author

Dr Mooi Standing is an independent academic nursing consultant with over 40 years’ experience that includes: (i) practising mental health and adult nursing in a range of hospital and community settings; (ii) lecturing pre-registration and post-registration nursing students from certificate to Master’s level and presenting scholarly papers at international nursing conferences; (iii) researching how nurses develop clinical decision-making skills and publishing articles, books and chapters on this topic for nursing students, registered nurses and advanced practitioners; and (iv) providing external consultancy in curriculum development and quality enhancement of nursing programmes both nationally and internationally.

Mooi is currently a Series Editor for Learning Matters′ Transforming Nursing Practice book series and has had extensive experience serving as a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Quality Assurance Reviewer of nursing educational programmes, and as a Professional Regulator as a Panellist on the NMC Practice Committee.

From the Back Cover

It is essential that students develop sound decision-making skills in order to deal with the challenges they will encounter as registered nurses. This book enables pre-registration nursing students to understand, develop and apply these skills in order to practise safely and effectively.

Edition details

• Publisher: Learning Matters
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 152647834X
• ISBN 13: 9781526478344
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 288