Esta serie de libros está diseñada para dotar a las enfermeras contemporáneas con el conocimiento práctico y teórico necesario para avanzar en sus carreras. Cada volumen profundiza en aspectos críticos de la práctica, desde habilidades clínicas esenciales hasta el desarrollo profesional y el liderazgo. El objetivo es capacitar a las enfermeras para que respondan de manera más efectiva a las demandas en constante evolución de la atención médica. Proporciona recursos valiosos para aquellos que buscan profundizar su comprensión y mejorar sus capacidades en enfermería.
Written using clear language this book shows how health promotion can be implemented while drawing on the main theories, models and evidence that inform practice. The book covers essential topics like lifestyle changes, health screening and patient education.
This book explores sociology and psychology relevant to nursing and explains why it is so important to understand these disciplines in order to provide holistic, person-centred care. This third edition has been updated according to the latest NMC standards and requirements.
Focusing on essential nursing calculations, this guide is designed to support nursing students and applicants in mastering tests and applying their skills in real-world scenarios. It offers practical strategies and clear explanations to ensure accuracy in calculations, helping readers build confidence and competence in their nursing practice.
This book aims to provide nursing students and new nurses with a greater understanding of how to manage patient safety and risk in their own practice. The book focuses on the essentials that students and nurses need to know, and therefore provides a clear pathway through what can sometimes seem an overwhelmingly complex mass of rules, procedures and possible options.
This book has been specifically designed to help guide students through the process of identifying, evaluating and applying evidence in nursing practice.
This book provides a timely guide to enabling patient and carer participation in nursing care, made relevant for nursing students.
It is vital that nurses providing person-centred care understand how culture and diversity affect patients' experience of health care. This book provides the knowledge, awareness and skills, ensuring that nursing students are able to communicate effectively with people from across the social spectrum.
Exploring Theory and Practice
Designed for new nursing students and applicants, this book offers a comprehensive overview of nursing practice, covering essential issues, processes, and theories. It serves as an ideal introductory text, providing valuable insights and foundational knowledge to prepare readers for their nursing programs or as pre-course reading.
Provides a clear explanation of the science as well as the practical and clinical aspects of infection prevention and control; giving students a more robust knowledge base to better prepare them for taking on future leadership roles in this area.
This book is specifically designed to equip nursing students and non- specialists with essential knowledge in relation to the care and management of people nearing the end of life, covering complex issues such as handling bereavement and cultural differences.
Developed in partnership with Certitude - an influential charity providing support for people with mental health problems or learning disabilities - this book will answer all of the commonly asked questions and provide mental health students with clear explanations and guidance on recovery.
Introduces student nurses and novice practitioners to the assessment process enabling them to identify patient problems in order for solutions to be planned and implemented.
This books is packed full of `need-to-know' information that will help students understand what is meant by mental health and wellbeing, and become aware of the common mental health problems as well as the typical interventions and treatment options available.
This book helps nursing students recognise why they need to know about psychology, how it can affect and influence their individual nursing practice as well as the role it plays in health and illness.
Uniquely focusing on person-centred, humanised care and physical care, this book helps students to examine attitudes towards older people in health care and combat negative stereotypes.
With all nurses expected to demonstrate leadership, management and team working skills it is vital that students engage with this aspect of their training as early as possible. As well as covering all of the core theory and knowledge, the authors also encourage the reader to explore their own values and experiences.
Demystifies health policy and helps you understand how policy decisions relate to your daily practice. Through the exploration of selected hot topics, such as patient involvement and dignity, this book helps you to consider how not only to use policy in practice, but also how to use practice to influence policy.
This book helps nursing students succeed in their final year and prepare for their first nursing role.
This book helps new students succeed first time in nursing calculations tests. It takes the fear out of maths, even for those who find it a struggle, through clear step-by-step explanations and lively examples from the real world of nursing practice.
Focusing on the transition from student to registered nurse, this guide addresses the challenges faced by final-year nursing students. It utilizes real-life scenarios to reinforce skills and prepare students for their first nursing roles. Key topics include stress management, job applications, expectations in the workplace, change adaptation, delegation, risk management, prioritization, and career development. The book aligns with NMC registration requirements, ensuring students are well-equipped for their professional journey.
This book gives nursing students a robust foundation for understanding and developing skills to work with people experiencing dementia.
The ability to reflect critically is a vital nursing skill. This book will help your students to make better decisions, avoid errors, identify good and bad forms of practice and become better at learning from their experiences.
Now in it's fourth edition and thoroughly updated to ensure all content is mapped to the new 2018 NMC standards, this book is a practical and readable guide to undertaking a research project plan or a literature review for final year assessment.
Through the use of varied case studies, this book explains and demonstrates how nurses can transform the ideals of person-centred care into reality for patients throughout their healthcare journey, in a variety of settings.
A practical guide to help potential nursing students succeed with their applications and interviews to get into nursing.
This is an excellent resource to introduce nursing students to the importance of reflection. It is easy to read and guides and assists the nursing students to see just how important reflective practice is in nursing.- Mark Wheatley, Nursing and Midwifery, University of Teesside
An essential guide for student nurses on how to prepare for, and get the most out of, practice learning experiences.
This new edition introduces the underpinning theory and concepts required for the development of first class communication and interpersonal skills in nursing. By providing a simple to read overview of the central topics students are able to quickly gain a solid, evidence-based grounding in the subject.
Supports students in making the most of their final year and preparing themselves to be a registered nurse.
Focusing on essential medicines management, this guide equips first-year nursing students with the knowledge and skills necessary for delivering safe patient care. By emphasizing practical application, it aims to build a solid foundation in medication principles that are crucial for effective nursing practice.
A practical, hands-on guide to the assessment process in mental health nursing.
This comprehensive text will help prepare mental health nurses to make sound clinical decisions in collaboration with service users as well as develop a holistic understanding of the impact of mental health medicines.
Mapped to the 2018 NMC Standards and filled with practical activities and case studies, this book develops the critical thinking and writing skills required of nursing students to succeed in their studies and practice.
A practical and clear guide to finding, assessing, retrieving and storing information for nursing course work and practice.
A clear, practical and up-to-date guide for student nurses to working with other professionals and other people in order to deliver quality care.
Mapped to the 2018 NMC Standards and written specifically for nursing students, this book provides a crash course in law and associated professional issues, using case studies and activities to demystify complex legal concepts and jargon.
A book on communication skills for mental health nurses with a focus on promoting recovery
Mapped to the 2018 NMC Standards and filled with real life scenarios and activities, this book develops students' competence and confidence in managing the care of critically and acutely ill patients.
This bestselling introduction to research supports those new to the topic by demystifying jargon and simply explaining the key concepts.
Mapped to the 2018 NMC Standards and filled with practical activities and case studies, Pathophysiology and Pharmacology in Nursing provides an integrated introduction to both the biology of disease and the therapeutic agents that are used to manage them.
Ethics can impact the decisions nurses make in their day-to-day work, so it's important that students develop their understanding of ethical frameworks as preparation for future practice. In this book, the author explains ethical ideas, theories and concepts in simple to understand terms, focussing on real- life nursing situations that makes it easy to apply these principles to your practice.
A clear and accessible introduction to safeguarding adults in nursing practice with a range of clients and across different settings.
Taking a recovery-approach perspective, this book helps mental health nurses and students understand the importance of physical health care and promotion for people with mental health disorders.
An essential introduction to what nursing is all about for first year nursing students and those applying to nursing courses.
Mapped to the 2018 NMC Standards, this book helps students develop the skills they need to make and apply sound clinical decisions. Clinical scenarios illustrate decision-making in different practice settings, while activities give students the chance to build confidence in their personal and clinical judgement.
By exploring the key topics and common challenges this book will provide your students with a perfect source of practical information that will lay the foundation for high quality, person-centred care.
A step-by-step and practical guide of how to compile a professional portfolio for use throughout nursing programmes and in initial nursing roles, where portfolios are an essential tool for interviews and employee appraisals.