Adult nursing : preparing for practice

✍ Scribed by Barton, Dave; Le May, Andrée

• Publisher: Hodder Arnold
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 337
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A complete resource for your career in nursing; this book gives you a sound knowledge basis for effective care and best practice in hospital and community settings and, alongside this, explores the many routes your professional development can take.

Part one explores the key aspects of the journey from commencing your adult nursing studies to becoming a consultant practitioner, researcher, manager or teacher, with the focus always on developing the best possible care.

Part two looks at the five major care themes: first contact, access and urgent care; supporting long term and palliative care; acute and critical hospital care; mental health and psychosocial care; and public health and primary care. A holistic and practical approach draws together research, policy guidelines, and nurse and patient experiences.

A companion website provides annotated weblinks to useful resources, PowerPoint presentations, interactive MCQs, and an 'ask the authors' feature.

• Presents the best evidence for practice
• Reflects UK policy directions and global health trends
• Text features include clinical case studies, patient perspectives, key points, colour illustrations and activities to aid learning
• Highlights career pathways and key areas for continuing professional development

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Contents note continued: Thinking differently --
References --
SECTION TWO Care themes and careers in nursing --
5. First contact, access and urgent care / Judith Morgan --
Unscheduled care settings --
Emergency departments --
history and development --
Developing your career in emergency nursing --
Meeting the care needs of specific groups --
Conclusion --
References --
6. The acute care of older people / Heather Fillmore Elbourne --
Reconfiguring acute care nursing practice to meet the complex needs of our ageing population --
Our ageing population --
Ageism within acute care --
Employing a person-centred approach to practice in acute care settings --
Reconfiguring nursing practice in acute care settings --
Overcoming acute care systemic and organisational barriers in order to reconnect with the essence of nursing --
Maintain your patients' dignity --
Conclusion --
References --
7. Supporting long-term care and palliative care / Elaine Lennan. Contents note continued: The stories of our careers and practice development --
What is important about long-term and palliative care? --
Palliative and end-of-life care --
Self-care and self-management --
Key skills for providing supportive care --
Developing the therapeutic relationship --
Advance care planning --
Equipping patients to self-care/self-manage ---
Carmel's story continued --
Developing nurse-led care services ---
Elaine's story continued --
The carer's voice' ---
Pauline's story continued --
Conclusion --
References --
8. Critical care, critical challenges, critical choices / Maureen Coombs --
Background --
Critical caring activities --
Professional practice --
Learning and development --
Research activity --
Management and leadership --
Professional and clinical practice (MC) and European practices, skill mix and regulation (MG) --
Gazing into the future --
Conclusion --
References --
Further reading --
9. Mental health and psychosocial care / Steve Jones. Contents note continued: The medical model and the social model --
The beginnings of psychosocial intervention by nurses --
A cultural change in psychiatric nursing --
Nursing goes to college --
Too posh to wash, too clever to care --
The development of modern mental health services --
Providing physical care for a mentally ill person --
Mental health nursing, education, and the future --
a personal reflection --
Conclusion --
References --
10. Public health and primary care / Jane Thomas --
Introduction --
Care and career pathways: nursing roles --
Professional practice in public health --
Leadership and management in public health --
Key areas in public health --
Practitioner/patient stories --
Contemporary issues in public health --
Research and the evidence base in public health --
Conclusion --
Appendix.

✦ Subjects

Nursing -- Practice. Practical nursing. Nurse practitioners. Clinical medicine. Nursing Care -- methods. Adult. Nurse's Role.