Clinical Skills for Student Nurses (eBook)

Theory, Practice and Reflection

Robin Richardson (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2008
560 Seiten
Scion Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-906052-34-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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.Using a scenario-based approach, this book relates skills to 'real' people and situations. In addition to providing instruction on how to perform clinical skills, it will also ask the students to reflect and consider how these skills and related principles may be transferred to other situations and contexts. Above all, the authors are offering students a friendly, interactive and visual approach to skills acquisition.Written by an experienced team of clinical skills educators at the University of Central Lancashire, Clinical Skills provides students and lecturers with: up-to-date theory and evidence-based practice, scenarios and case studies, activities to encourage reflection, exercises for self-assessment and skills practice, a glossary, references and further reading.

Inhalt

Introduction



PART 1 COMMUNICATION

1 Interpersonal skills

2 Assessment of patients

3 Transferring and discharging patients

4 Pain management

5 Venepuncture and cannulation



PART 2 PERSONAL CARE

6 Personal hygiene

7 Catheterisation (male and female)

8 Bowel care, suppositories and enemata

9 Skin integrity assessment and pressure area care



PART 3 CARE AND COMPASSION



10 Nutritional support, hydration and fluid balance

11 Moving and handling

12 Breaking bad news

13 Last offices



PART 4 MEDICINE MANAGEMENT



14 The legal, ethical and professional aspects of medicines management

15 The administration of medicines

16 Medication errors, drug storage and controlled drugs



PART 5 CARE MANAGEMENT



17 Observations

18 Early Warning Scores – the early detection of deterioration

19 Airway management and life support

20 Pre- and post-operative care

21 Specimen collection and infection control





Appendix: Essential Skills Clusters (ESCs) for Pre-registration Nursing Programmes

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.3.2008
• Verlagsort: Exeter
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
• ISBN-10: 1-906052-34-4 / 1906052344
• ISBN-13: 978-1-906052-34-8 / 9781906052348