Author: Christine Ely Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 0723433712 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 239
Book Description
Study skills are essential to nursing and the aim of this book is to provide you with an easy-to-use guide that will help you to develop the study skills necessary to your academic and professional life.
Author: Loretta A. Moreno Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ISBN: 1975141776 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 1816
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Help your LPN/LVN students develop the understanding and clinical skills necessary for effective practice in today’s challenging health care environments with this trusted authority. Timby’s Fundamental Nursing Skills and Concepts, Twelfth Edition continues a tradition of excellence in preparing LPN/LVN students for success throughout their nursing education and into clinical practice. This approachable resource gives students a solid foundation in theoretical nursing concepts, step-by-step skills and procedures, and clinical applications while encouraging them to apply philosophical concepts focusing on the human experience. Filled with engaging learning tools that promote critical thinking, this new edition has been fully updated to reflect current medical and nursing practice and features visually enticing photos and illustrations that bring the information to life to reinforce learning.
Author: Patricia Ann Potter Publisher: ISBN: 9780323016605 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 1040
Book Description
Building on the strengths of the fourth edition, Basic Nursing: Essentials for Practice is back in a new edition! Thoroughly updated and revised to provide a more focused and engaging presentation, this new edition offers the basic principles, concepts, and skills needed by nursing students. The five-step nursing process returns to provide a consistent, logical organizational framework, with a clear writing style and numerous learning aids. An increased emphasis on caring, along with new boxes on Focused Client Assessment and Outcome Evaluation, reflect current practice trends. This new edition is better than ever! Five-Step Nursing Process provides a consistent organizational framework. More than 40 nursing skills are presented in a clear, 2-column format with rationales for all steps. Procedural Guidelines boxes provide streamlined step-by-step instructions for performing basic skills. Growth and Development chapter and age-related considerations throughout clinical chapters help prepare students to care for clients of all ages. Sample Nursing Care Plans highlight defining characteristics in assessment data, include client goals and expected outcomes in the planning section, and provide rationales for each nursing intervention. Progressive Case Studies follow the interactions of a client and nurse throughout the chapter to illustrate steps in the nursing process and develop critical thinking skills. Brief coverage of higher level concepts including research, theory, professional roles, and management, maintains the text's focus on essential, basic content. The narrative style makes the text more engaging and appealing. Focused Client Assessment boxes provide specific guidelines for factors to assess, questions and approaches, and physical assessment. Content on delegation is discussed throughout the narrative and specific guidelines are included for each skill. Skills now include Unexpected Outcomes and Interventions to alert for potential undesirable responses and provide appropriate nursing actions. Caring in Nursing is presented in a new chapter and as a thread throughout the text. Outcome Evaluation are based on the chapter's case study and provide guidelines on how to ask questions and evaluate care based on the answers received. NIC and NOC are discussed in the Nursing Process chapter to provide an overview of these taxonomies encountered in practice. NCLEX-style multiple-choice questions at the end of each chapter help students evaluate learning.
Author: Catherine Delves-Yates Publisher: SAGE ISBN: 1526451557 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 1228
Book Description
Essentials of Nursing Practice introduces the core topics and essential information that nursing students, in all four fields, will need to master during the first year of a nursing degree. It expertly brings together insight from over fifty experienced lecturers, nurses and healthcare professionals, along with contributions from student nurses, to deliver the most complete guide to successfully becoming a registered nurse. Key features: A clear, full-colour, effective learning design aimed to help students understand the core theory, skills and knowledge, and how this can be applied in practice through holistic, person-centred nursing. Covers professional issues such as ethics, law, accountability, core academic skills like writing and completing assignments, and fundamental clinical skills such as pain management and medicines administration. Includes interactive activities such as critical thinking, reflection and ‘what’s the evidence’ boxes. Real-life ‘voices’ and experiences from patients, students and practitioners are integrated throughout. Addresses the transition to the new NMC Standards of Proficiency with a new tool developed for educators mapping the content of the book to both the existing and new standards. Readers get free 24/7 access to videos, case studies, journal articles, quizzes and multiple choice questions at the click of a button, by downloading the interactive eBook version of the text. (Redemption code and instructions inside the book)
Author: Leslie S Treas Publisher: F.A. Davis ISBN: 0803640544 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 1759
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Thinking. Doing Caring. In every chapter, you’ll first explore the theoretical knowledge behind the concepts, principles, and rationales. Then, you’ll study the practical knowledge involved in the processes; and finally, you’ll learn the skills and procedures. Student resources available at DavisPlus (davisplus.fadavis.com).
Author: Sandra Fucci Smith Publisher: Prentice Hall Health ISBN: Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 852
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For Fundamentals and Skills courses. This photo atlas provides a full-color presentation of all basic and intermediate skills for fundamental-level students. Its unique and easy-to-use format presents each procedure in logical steps complete with appropriate illustrations, descriptions, and rationales. A critical thinking section focuses on unexpected outcomes when performing skills, and encourages students to problem solve in a clinical context using alternative nursing actions.
Author: Tina Moore Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1315528754 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 718
Book Description
Employing an evidence-based approach, this comprehensive textbook introduces the core clinical skills and competencies a newly-qualified nurse is required to have for professional practice. It is divided into five broad sections looking at: Care and compassion and communication, including personal care and pain assessment Essential skills, including observations, monitoring and emergency management Organisational aspects of care, including moving and handling, and wound care Safety and protection, including medicine management and infection control Nutrition and fluid balance, including hydration and nutrition. Designed to allow readers to develop and enhance their clinical skills with one key textbook, each chapter contains learning outcomes, recommendations for practice, case studies, activities, ‘clinical significance’ highlights and step-by-step guides to important procedures. This invaluable clinical skills textbook is an essential reference for pre-registration nursing students of all fields of nursing.
Author: Philippa Sully Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 0702044385 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 250
Book Description
Effective communication skills are crucial in all aspects of nursing and midwifery practice - this book will enable readers to communicate effectively and with confidence in their professional practice. It focuses on the communication skills needed for the development of effective professional and therapeutic relationships. It is a 'how to do it' book that relates the theory of effective and ethical communication to the practice of nursing and midwifery and provides a framework for developing communication skills to meet a variety of situations. Approx.256 pagesAll the chapters have been revised in line with up-to-date literature, professional practice guidelines and research
Author: Gabby Koutoukidis Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 0729585557 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 412
Book Description
The Essential Enrolled Nursing Skills for Person-Centred Care, 1st edition, workbook is an indispensable tool that will assist students in mastering the clinical skills required to deliver the highest-quality care. Specifically developed to support Tabbner's Nursing Care: Theory and Practice, 7th edition, the workbook features the essential skills that form part of the assessment for Diploma of Nursing students. Based on evidence-based practice, each skill features a step-by-step approach and rationale to help understanding of how and why a skill is performed. - Directly aligned to Tabbner's Nursing Care: Theory and Practice, 7th edition - All skills and competency checklists align to the new 2016 Enrolled Nurse Standards for Practice and the HLT Health Training Package - Competency checklists feature the Bondy Rating Scale, providing a valuable tool for assessment - Equipment list for each skill - Reflection opportunity at the end of each competency checklist to encourage learning - Includes the decision-making framework for the EN
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