Nursing Practice: Knowledge and Care - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118481364 ISBN 13: 9781118481363

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 2014

Synopsis

Nursing Practice is the essential, textbook to support you throughout your entire nursing degree, from your first year onwards. It explores all the clinical and professional issues that you need to know in one complete volume. Written in the context of the latest Nursing and Midwifery Council Standards for Pre-Registration Nursing Education and the Essential Skills Clusters, this book covers all fields of nursing: Adult, Child, Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and also Maternity care, in both acute and community settings. With full colour illustrations, and plenty of activities and user-friendly features throughout, this evidence-based text encompasses essential nursing theory and practice, providing students with information to support their success. Learning features in the book include: Hear it from the experts- tips and advice from real life nurses, patients and their carers, and student nursesRed Flags- alerting the student to potential dangersPrimary Care Considerations- informs students about care issues in the community settingFields boxes- giving further insight into other fields of nursing, making the book relevant to all fields of nursing practiceMedicines Management boxes provide key information about medicinesSelf-assessment and activities throughout A companion website to this title is available at www.wileynursingpractice.com Here you ll find a range of resources for both the student and the lecturer, including: Over 350 interactive multiple choice questionsFlashcardsGlossaryLinks to references and further readingIllustrations from the bookWorksheets

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The second edition of the successful and definitive nursing textbook, Nursing Practice is designed to support the student throughout the entire nursing degree. Structured around the latest Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Conduct, it explores a range of clinical and professional issues that the student will need to know, in one complete and accessible volume.

Thoroughly updated and with full–colour, high–quality illustrations throughout, this new edition features an additional chapter on the principles of supporting families and carers in practice, advice on revalidation, as well as a number of learning features and activities to help consolidate learning.

Nursing Practice provides invaluable information to enable not just student nurses, but also those who are qualified and members of the extended nursing family, to develop a deeper understanding of their patients′ needs and to ensure that they are practicing safely and effectively.

About the Author:

Ian Peate OBE FRCN is Editor in Chief of the British Journal of Nursing, Visiting Professor of Nursing, St George′s University of London and Kingston University London, and Head of School at the School of Health Studies, Gibraltar.

Karen Wild, formerly Senior Lecturer in Nursing, Student Opportunity Lead and Admissions Lead at the School of Health and Society, University of Salford, UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1118481364
• ISBN 13: 9781118481363
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 988
• Editor: Peate Ian, Wild Karen, Nair Muralitharan