Essentials of nursing practice. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Catherine Delves-Yates.`.
• Other Names: Delves-Yates, Catherine
• Contents: What is nursing and What is a nurse? -- Being a nursing student -- Core academic skills -- Academic writing and assessment skills -- Ethics -- Law -- Accountability and professionalism -- Resilience -- The role of the nursing student in effecting change -- Clinical governance -- Delivering effective care -- Introduction to nursing theory -- Value-based, person-centered care -- Patient, service user, family and carer perspectives -- assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation (APIE) -- Core communication skills -- Communication and interpersonal skills in challenging circumstances -- Assessing and managing risk -- Record-keeping and documentation -- Clinical decision-making -- Health promotion -- Safeguarding -- Patient education -- Infection prevention and control (IPC) -- Clinical measurement -- Pain management -- Aseptic technique and specimen collection -- Skin integrity -- Safer handling of people -- First aid -- Medicines administration -- Assisting patients with their nutritional needs -- Assisting patients with their elimination needs -- Assisting with their hygiene needs -- Last offices -- Introduction to the organization and settings of care -- Public health -- Introduction to interprofessional working -- Introduction to the psychological context of nursing -- Introduction to the sociological context of nursing -- Introduction to health policy and the political context of nursing -- Introduction to the global context of nursing.
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (744 pages)
• Subjects: 610.7/3/0941; Nursing; Nursing; Nursing Care; Nursing Process; Nursing; Omvårdnad
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781473927681; 1473927684
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.