Hilary Lloyd, Helen Hancock, Steven Campbell

Principles of Care

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Vital Notes for Nurses: Principles of Care is an essential guide for nursing students and newly qualified nurses. It provides a concise introduction to the essential principles of nursing care. It encourages nurses to examine the principles and evidence underlying nursing practice and equips them with a thorough understanding of the complexities of patient care in different environments of care. Principles of Care explores concepts of health and illness, conceptual frameworks for practice, principles of health care delivery, and professional standards. Key themes include assessment and planning, implementation and evaluation, patient education and health promotion, decision making and risk management, benchmarking, clinical effectiveness and practice development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Stax Textbooks
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9781405145985
• ISBN-10: 1405145986
• Artikelnr.: 22696298

Autorenporträt

Hilary Lloyd is Principal Lecturer in Nursing Practice Development and Research and Deputy Head of Nursing R and D; this is a joint post between City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust and Northumbria University. Helen Hancock is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Integrated Health Care Research, School for Health at Durham University. Steven Campbell is Head of Research and Development City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust and Chair of Nursing Practice, School of Health, Community and Education Studies, Northumbria University.

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: Principles of Health and Illness.

Chapter 1: Health Models and Concepts of Health.

Chapter 2: Behaviour in Health and Illness.

Chapter 3: Nursing Theory and Nursing Models.

Chapter 4: Principles of the nursing process.

Section 2: Principles of Nursing Practice.

Chapter 5: Principles of 'essence of care'.

Chapter 6: Developing therapeuticrelationships/partnerships.

Chapter 7: Principles of communication.

Chapter 8: Patient education.

Section 3: Principles of Health Care Delivery.

Chapter 9: The nature of the multidisciplinary team.

Chapter 10: Decision making and risk management in careimplementation.

Chapter 11: Evidence based practice.

Chapter 12: Environments of Care.

Section 4: Principles of Professional Issues.

Chapter 13: New role development.

Chapter 14 Quality Assurance.

Chapter 15: Clinical effectiveness.

Chapter 16: Scope of practice and professional standards

Rezensionen

'...a useful resource for clinical staff, laying great emphasison the evidence base for current practice.

Principles of Care is aimed at students and newly qualifiedstaff and, in this respect, hits the bullseye...

This book is one which I would be glad to have on mybookshelf as a permanent reference.'

Nursing Standard