Mental Health Placements (eBook)

A Pocket Guide

Angelina Chadwick, Elizabeth Tudor, Maxine Womack, Luke Woodhouse (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
102 Seiten
Scion Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-908625-72-4 (ISBN)

Infos

A handy pocket guide to help mental health nursing students prepare for their practice placements.



Placements can be daunting to the unprepared. This pocket guide is designed to make mental health placements more enjoyable and less stressful and to help student nurses get the most out of their practice learning experience.

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A handy pocket guide to help mental health student nurses prepare for their practice placements.Mental health nursing placements can be daunting you ll be working in a variety of settings and supporting individuals with a range of mental health problems. 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 personal safety, via least restrictive practice, it s full of practical detail, hints and tips.Written by a team comprising an experienced mental health lecturer, a Practice Education Facilitator and two recently qualified mental health nurses this guidance is really produced with you in mind.Pocket-sized format carry it with you at all times.Space to make your own notes be it uniform policy, new terminology, or just the names of your new colleagues!Reduce your stress and make the most of your placements 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 placement

2. Uniform

3. Absence policy

4. The NMC Code

5. Person-centred care

    5.1 Least restrictive practice

6. Consent, confidentialityand safeguarding

    6.1 Consent

    6.2 Confidentiality

    6.3 Safeguarding

7. Guidance on using social media



Settling there

8. Induction and first day

9. Working with those supervising your practice

10. Common documentation

11. Communicating with colleagues

12. Communicating with patients



Being there

13. Personal safety

     13.1 De-escalation

     13.2 Hand hygiene

     13.3 Infection control and sharps policy

     13.4 Moving and handling

14. Fundamental skills

     14.1 Assessment

     14.2 Drug administration

     14.3 Drug calculations

     14.4 Observations

     14.5 Skin assessment

     14.6 Urinalysis

15. Basic Life Support

16. Common medical emergencies

     16.1 Anaphylactic reaction

     16.2 Falls

     16.3 Sepsis

     16.4 Stroke

     16.5 Seizures

17.  Common groups of medications

     17.1 Antipsychotics

     17.2 Antidepressants

     17.3 Anxiolytics

18. Pain assessment – pain tools



Moving on from there

19. Reflection and action planning

20. Common terminology

21. Quick references

22. Further reading

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Banbury
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Ausbildung / Prüfung
• Themenwelt: Pflege ► Fachpflege ► Neurologie / Psychiatrie
• Schlagworte: placement, mental health placement, placement learning, pocket guide, mental health nursing, psychiatric nursing
• ISBN-10: 1-908625-72-4 / 1908625724
• ISBN-13: 978-1-908625-72-4 / 9781908625724