Community Placements (eBook)

A Pocket Guide

Caroline Dickson, Lesley McKinlay, Fiona Stuart, Georgios Tsigkas (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
80 Seiten
Scion Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-908625-56-4 (ISBN)

Infos

A handy, pocket-sized guide designed to help student nurses make the most of their community nursing placements.



Community placements can be daunting to the unprepared. This pocket guide will make placements more enjoyable and less stressful, so that you get the most out of your time in the community.

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A handy, pocket-sized guide designed to help student nurses make the most of their community nursing placements.Community placements can be daunting you ll be working in a variety of settings, caring for a range of individual people and families with different needs, often in their own homes. There are new colleagues to work with, and newly learned nursing theory to put into practice. This pocket guide is designed to make your placements much more enjoyable and less stressful.From absence policy to palliative care, via home visiting, it s full of practical detail, hints and tips.Written by experienced lecturers with the input of current nursing students this guidance is really produced with you inmind.Pocket-sized format carry it with you at all times.Space to make your own notes be it uniform policy, observations about the community you re supporting, or just the names of your new colleagues!Reduce your stress and make the most of your community placement by having this book to hand from the start.Pocket Guides is a series of handy, pocket-sized books designed to help students make the most of their practice learning experiences.

Inhalt

Getting
there

1. Preparing for
community placement

2. Uniform

3. Absence
policy

4. Professionalism

5. Person-centred
practice

Settling
there

6. Induction /
first day

7. Key
colleagues you will be working with

8. Getting to
know your community

9. Working with
your mentor

Being
there

10. Home visiting

11. Interpersonal
skills

12. Communicating
with colleagues

13. Health and
safety

14. Community
emergencies

15. Documentation

16. Caring and
supporting people across the lifespan

17. Opportunities
for learning

Moving
on from there

18. Reflection

19. Completion of
your practice assessment documentation

20. Transferable
skills

21. Further reading

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.11.2018
• Verlagsort: Banbury
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Ausbildung / Prüfung
• Schlagworte: placement, community placement, placement learning, pocket guide, community nursing
• ISBN-10: 1-908625-56-2 / 1908625562
• ISBN-13: 978-1-908625-56-4 / 9781908625564