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Clinical Skills for Student Nurses: Theory, Practice and Reflection (Buy It) Robin Richardson Clinical Skills for Student Nurses is a comprehensive learning resource for student nurses in the UK. This textbook is based on the NMC Essential Skills Clusters and covers all the key clinical skills required for effective and efficient practice in UK healthcare. The book maps the development of the student nurse in relation to clinical skill acquisition, focusing not only on the dexterity aspects, but also on the underpinning theory and the attitudinal aspects of skill delivery. |
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Communication and Interpersonal Skills (Buy It) Elaine Donnelly and Lindsey Neville Good communication and interpersonal skills are essential to the practice of effective health and social care. In communicating with others, the practitioner needs to be able to use a variety of strategies to ensure professional practice, meet health and social care needs and facilitate positive working relationships. This book provides the student with the opportunity to explore the theory that underpins communication studies and provides a unique opportunity for the reader to self-assess and improve their communication and interpersonal skills. |
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Effective Management in Long-term Care Organisations: A Textbook for Students and New Care Managers (Buy It) Janet Scott, Anne Gill and Keith Crowhurst Effective Management in Long-term Care Organisations is a unique combination of up-to-date management theory and practice designed for students and new care managers in nursing homes, residential homes and the variety of care settings in the community. This accessible and interactive text covers relevant theory and practice. It is written by people with a wide experience as managers and educators in the social care sector. |
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Numeracy, Clinical Calculations and Basic Statistics (Buy It) Neil Davison This valuable textbook will help nurses and other health care students achieve confidence and proficiency in performing a variety of calculations, both in the clinical environment and in written tests. It discusses the increasing demands placed upon the numeracy skills of nurses and considers potential sources of calculation errors. |
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Nursing in the UK: A Handbook for Nurses from Overseas and the EU (Buy It) Wendy Benbow and Gill Jordan Nursing in the UK is a comprehensive introduction to the range of subjects that qualified nurses from overseas are required to have studied in order to gain registration in the UK. The book has been written to support both the requirements of the NMC’s prescribed curriculum content for Overseas Nursing programmes, and as an introduction to the delivery and provision of UK health care for qualified nurses from the EU seeking to practice in this country. |
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Understanding Research and Evidence-based Practice (Buy It) Bruce Lindsay This accessible textbook provides an understandable and interactive introduction to research and evidence-based practice in health and social care. It is aimed at students in Further Education, on Foundations Degree courses and in the first year of a diploma or undergraduate programme in higher education. |
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Values for Care Practice (Buy It) Sue Cuthbert and Jan Quallington Values are a fundamental component of the provision, practice and delivery of health and social care. The development of personal and professional values is influenced by a number of factors and the values held by practitioners and their professional groups can lead to competing demands and duties that make decision-making complex. In this book, readers will be encouraged to critically analyse their personal value base and those underpinning health and social care work. They will explore values in general and reflect on how these are articulated in Codes of Practice. The text will use activities and case studies to enable the reader to reflect on the relevance of values in care practice and to apply theory in their practice. |
