Promoting safe practice
Key topics • An introduction to clinical governance • Essential principles of safe practice: • Adopting a questioning approach • Informing your practice with up-to-date knowledge and evidence • Knowing…
Food and nutrition
Key topics • The meaning and function of food • Obtaining food and providing food that meets people’s needs • Food policy • Food availability • Eating to promote health…
How to study and learn effectively
Key topics • The importance of becoming a learner for life • Planning to be a successful learner through use of time-management techniques • Making good use of study time…
Learning and working as a nursing student in a multicultural world
Key topics • Multicultural society • Supporting diversity employment policy • Quality issues relating to diversity • Gender differences • Transcultural care Introduction This chapter is about learning and working…
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…
