Decision-making in practice
Key topics • Evidence-based practice • Decision-making • The nursing process • Using models of assessment • Using frameworks • Making decisions on-your-feet • Documentation and record-keeping Introduction This chapter…
Becoming a nurse
Key topics • Having a personal vision about being a nurse • Formalizing the vision • The professional statutory organization for nursing in the UK • Careers in nursing •…
Using a ‘toolkit’ of activities in your placement
Key topics • Making the most of the activities in the ‘toolkit’ • Being a nurse and doing nursing • Finding out about your placement setting • Planning your nursing…
Managing self and setting priorities in placements
Key topics • Introduction • Why are placements so important? • What is a placement and who will support me? • What can I do before I commence a placement?…
Working in a team
Key topics • The nature of teams and their characteristics • Teamwork and the delivery of health care • Factors leading to poor and good teamwork • Case histories of…
management
CHAPTERS 10 Working in a team………… 333 11 Managing self and setting priorities in placements………… 353 12 Decision-making in practice………… 375 13 Promoting safe practice………… 401 In this section of…
of care delivery
CHAPTERS 7 Communication between patients, carers and health care professionals……………………….. 189 8 Food and nutrition…………………… 231 9 Hygiene……………………….. 285 Introduction Learning how to provide nursing care that reflects the highest…
The emotional labour of nursing
Key topics • Becoming a nurse • Learning to become a professional • Emotional labour and feeling rules • Learning to do emotional labour • Learning and managing the emotional…
Professional standards and rules:
Key topics • Health care ethics and the moral character of the health care professional • The responsibility of acting morally well through exercising the virtues in the delivery of…
Sample Test 2
Sample Test 2 Questions 1. What’s the primary adverse effect of thrombolytic therapy? [ ] A. Reperfusion arrhythmias [ ] B. Bleeding [ ] C. Release of oxygen-free radicals […
