The Care Process: Assessment, Planning, Implementation and Evaluation in Healthcare (Essentials) - Softcover

Melanie Newton; Anne Llewellyn; Sally Hayes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908625635 ISBN 13: 9781908625632

Publisher: Lantern Publishing Ltd, 2019

Synopsis

Master the essential skills needed for delivering high-quality, person-centred care.

The Care Process is a clear, practical, and engaging textbook designed for nursing, health and social care students. Covering the four key stages—Assessment, Planning, Implementation, and Review & Evaluation—this book provides the knowledge and confidence to excel in your studies and professional practice.

• Learn through real-world scenarios, activities, and an overarching case study that runs throughout the book, making complex concepts easy to understand and apply.
  
  

🔹 Develop essential skills, including:

• ✅ Effective communication across all stages of care
• ✅ Decision-making using proven models and tools
• ✅ Conducting thorough assessments to understand service users' needs
• ✅ Creating and implementing personalised, holistic care plans
• ✅ Reviewing and evaluating care interventions to ensure quality and effectiveness

💡 Mapped to the latest NMC standards—includes a detailed appendix showing how the book aligns with the Nursing and Midwifery Council proficiency standards.

Whether you're a student or a professional looking to enhance your care skills, this essential textbook will support you every step of the way.

📘 Part of the highly popular Essentials series—trusted by thousands of students in nursing, health and social care.

About this title

About the Author

Mel Newton is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Social Care at Teesside University. She has worked for many years within the Nursing Department teaching across pre-registration and post-registration courses, but recently moved to teach leadership and human factors/patient safety. She is course leader for MSc Human Factors and Patient Safety, which is an online course.
Mel is undertaking a Doctorate in Professional Practice and intends to contribute to research by using ethnography to understand the healthcare culture and management of patient falls. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Dr Anne Llewellyn started working life as a Registered Nurse, and worked in Higher Education for over 25 years, primarily in academic roles. She took on various leadership roles in higher education and was awarded Principal Fellow of the HEA in 2015 and University Teaching Fellowship in 2016. Anne was most recently Deputy Director (Learning Development), Student Library Services at Teesside University, a role in which she had responsibility for learning skills development, disability and mental health services, customer services and learning space. She retired from healthcare education in 2020.

Dr Sally Hayes is Director of Students at the Open University. Her academic career began at Leeds Metropolitan University where she gained experience of working with students at different academic levels within nursing and other health related professions across pre- and post-registration education. She is particularly interested in facilitating the development of all learners, be they students of different disciplines, clinical practitioners or educationalists who base their practice on a journey of lifelong learning through critical reflection. She completed her Doctorate in 2013 which examined educational standards in nursing and is currently preparing a portfolio submission for the Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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This is a cyclical and continuous process in which needs are assessed and reassessed according to ongoing evaluation. The process requires addressing a number of questions in order to undertake an assessment of need and to gather the information required to plan care and interventions. Essentially, nursing practice involves problem-solving and identifying solutions to problems, whether the individual is admitted to hospital for a short-planned operation, or receives time-limited care within the primary care sector, or they have longer‐term health and/or social care needs. The care process involves a series of stages and good assessment is essential for the identification of the problem as well as setting goals and planning interventions. If we fail to assess properly, there is a risk of basing interventions on guesswork or adopting a ritualised approach to the care process.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lantern Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908625635
• ISBN 13: 9781908625632
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224