Peter Ellis, Mooi Standing

Patient Assessment and Care Planning in Nursing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The fourth edition of this bestselling textbook builds your skills for accurate, person-centred assessment and care planning. Working step-by-step through the process, it equips you with practical assessment tools and models for care planning. Its holistic approach helps you to think in the round about an individual s physical health, mental health and other needs, as well as the broader social and environmental factors that influence their lives and care. Fully updated in line with contemporary evidence-based practice, this book will support you through your assignments, placements and into your nursing career.

Key features:
Each chapter is mapped to the 2018 NMC Standards
Introduces commonly used assessment tools alongside broader considerations, including preventative healthcare assessment and acting in a patient's best interests.
Scenarios and case studies illustrate theory, principles and complex assessment
Develops the critical thinking and decision-making skills which are essential for effective practice

Produktdetails

• Transforming Nursing Practice Series
• Verlag: Learning Matters / Sage Publications
• 4. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781529610000
• ISBN-10: 1529610001
• Artikelnr.: 66166076

Autorenporträt

Peter Ellis is the co-founder of the Society Alliance, a campaiging organisation promoting a societal economy and Homes within Homes, an organisation advocating the use of our existing housing stock to create affordable tenancies.He is a political thinker and campaigner, who after spending several years as a councillor in the mid-1980s has developed increasingly radical, yet inclusive solutions to the social and economic problems of the modern age. He writes as a father, seeking a better future for younger and future generations.His is a unique message saying we must challenge legacy, the bi-partisan economics of capitalism and socialism and embrace a more humane and democratic, plural economy, which places the individual and society at the heart of our decision making and politics.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Person centred patient assessment and practice
Chapter 2: Understanding our role in patient assessment
Chapter 3: Making sense of patient information
Chapter 4: Assessment tools
Chapter 5: Nursing diagnosis
Chapter 6: Principles of care planning
Chapter 7: Nursing models and care planning
Chapter 8: Ethical aspects of patient assessment
Chapter 9: Patient assessment and decision making