Promoting safe practice

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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…

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Food and nutrition

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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…

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How to study and learn effectively

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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…

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Decision-making in practice

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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…

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Becoming a nurse

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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 •…

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Working in a team

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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…

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management

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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…

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