Demonstrating your clinical competence in cardiovascular and neurological conditions. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jane Higgs [and 4 others].
• Authors: Higgs, Jane
• Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; About the authors; Chapter 1 Making the link: personal development plans, postregistration education and practice (PREP) and portfolios; The process of lifelong learning; Your personal development plan; Using portfolios for appraisal/individual performance review and PREP; Demonstrating the standards of your practice; Preparing your portfolio; Chapter 2 Practical ways to identify your learning and service needs as part of your portfolio; Setting standards to show that you are competent Identify your learning needs -- how you can find out if you need to be better at doing your jobIdentify your service needs -- how you can find out if there are gaps in services or how you deliver care; Set priorities: how you match what's needed with what's possible; Chapter 3 Demonstrating common components of good quality healthcare; Consent; Collecting data to demonstrate your learning, competence, performance and standards of service delivery: consent; Confidentiality; Collecting data to demonstrate your learning, competence, performance and standards of service delivery: confidentiality Learning from complaintsCollecting data to demonstrate your learning, competence, performance and standards of service delivery: complaints; Chapter 4 Cardiovascular disease; What issues you should cover; Secondary prevention; Quality indicators for coronary heart disease in relation to the General Medical Services contract; Collecting data to demonstrate your learning, competence, performance and standards of service delivery; Chapter 5 Hypertension; What issues you should cover; Quality indicators for hypertension in relation to the General Medical Services contract Collecting data to demonstrate your learning, competence, performance and standards of service deliveryChapter 6 Heart failure; What issues you should cover; Quality indicators for heart failure in relation to the General Medical Services contract; Collecting data to demonstrate your learning, competence, performance and standards of service delivery; Chapter 7 Cerebrovascular disease; Anterior circulation transient ischaemic attacks; Posterior circulation transient ischaemic attacks; Transient ischaemic attacks: implications for drivers Transient ischaemic attack symptoms in oral contraceptive usersSurgical options for treatment; Stroke management; Quality indicators for stroke and transient ischaemic attacks in relation to the General Medical Services contract; Collecting data to demonstrate your learning, competence, performance and standards of service delivery; Chapter 8 Headache; Tension headaches; Chronic daily headache and medication-overuse headache; Intracranial tumours; Temporal arteritis; Migraine; Collecting data to demonstrate your learning, competence, performance and standards of service delivery
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 616.1/0231; Cardiovascular system -- Diseases -- Nursing; Neurological nursing; Nursing audit; Cardiovascular system -- Diseases -- Nursing -- Authorship; Neurological nursing -- Authorship; Clinical competence; HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General; MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine; MEDICAL / Diseases; MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine; MEDICAL / Internal Medicine; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315343303; 1315343304
• Related ISBNs: 9781138448858
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 18, 2018).
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