Home Health Care
Chapter 31 Home Health Care Tina M. Marrelli* Chapter Outline Definitions Standards and Credentialing Home Health Care Today Types of Agencies Types of Services Reimbursement Mechanisms Types of Home Care…
Evaluation of Nursing Care with Communities
Chapter 17 Evaluation of Nursing Care with Communities Claudia M. Smith and Frances A. Maurer Chapter Outline Responsibilities in Evaluation of Nursing Care with Communities Responsibilities of Baccalaureate-Prepared Community/Public Health…
Communication between patients, carers and health care professionals
Key topics • Importance of communication in nursing • What communication is • Anatomy and physiology of speech, hearing and vision • The nurse–patient relationship • The complexity of communication…
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 •…
