Study Skills: For Nursing, Health and Social Care (Essentials) - Softcover

Marjorie Ghisoni; Peggy Murphy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908625651 ISBN 13: 9781908625656

Publisher: Lantern Publishing Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

Study Skills is an accessible textbook for nursing, health and social care students seeking to improve their study skills, develop their resilience, enhance their employability and cultivate a love of lifelong learning.
Through clear explanations, helpful hints, activities and quizzes, the book will help you to develop your study skills for both your studies and future career. You will learn:

• How to manage your time
• How to develop your reading and note-taking skills
• How to search the literature and apply critical thinking to your reading
• How to write essays and reference your sources
• How to use feedback and reflective practice to improve your academic performance
• How to deliver effective presentations

This book will help you to develop your study skills and become a resilient lifelong learner.

Contents

1 Skills for the resilient learner
2 Effective time management
3 Reading and note-taking skills
4 Skills for literature searching
5 Skills for critical thinking
6 Writing essays and reports
7 Referencing skills
8 Feedback
9 Reflective writing skills
10 Skills for teamworking
11 Skills for presentations and public speaking
12 Skills for employability in health and social care
13 Skills for the developing professional
14 Lifelong learning skills: future-proof your learning

About this title

About the Author

Marjorie Ghisoni is a Lecturer and course lead for mental health nursing at Bangor University in North Wales. Marjorie qualified as a nurse in 1996 with Bangor University and worked as a community psychiatric nurse for a few years before becoming a lecturer practitioner part-time, then a full-time lecturer in 2003. After gaining her PhD in 2012, Marjorie believes that compassionate understanding of the needs of people in all walks of life is the main component of healthcare skills, education, development and practice.
Peggy Murphy is a Senior Lecturer in adult nursing at Liverpool John Moores University. She has nursing experience in acute medicine and cardiothoracic intensive care and has worked as a registered nurse both in the UK and Australia. She became a nurse lecturer in 2003 and developed an interest in working with students as partners to enhance inclusive practice in nurse education. Peggy was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy in 2014 for her collaborative work on assessment and feedback. Peggy has published and co-presented her work with students nationally and internationally. She currently acts as a co-convenor for the Researching, Advancing and Inspiring Student Engagement (RAISE) Special Interest Group on partnerships.

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Resilience requires a mindful approach to our everyday activities so that we can monitor our own responses. We will be asking you to do this in each chapter so that you can practise self- compassion and resilience skills. As you work through the book your skills will become useful in practice and in meeting educational and professional deadlines or requirements. Developing resilience skills will also help you to identify your own needs when searching through literature and making reference to the literature that you have read. We will be exploring resilience as part of the learning outcomes in each of the following chapters so that you will become more aware of what skills you need to develop and increase your resilience skills.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lantern Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908625651
• ISBN 13: 9781908625656
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226
• Editor: Marjorie Ghisoni, Peggy Murphy