Clinical Skills The Essence of Caring

Publisher: Open University Press
1st edition - 10 Mar 2009
Paperback: 269 pages
ISBN-10: 0335223559
ISBN-13: 978-0335223558 

Clinical Skills: The Essence of Caring is an innovative new textbook and integrated Media Tool package which makes teaching and learning nursing interactive! Based on the Essence of Care, this book covers the core clinical skills curriculum and takes a holistic approach to the importance of delivering excellent nursing care.

Key Features:

Comprehensive coverage: An accessible account of all fundamental skills is provided, including Record Keeping, Communication and Pressure Ulcers.

Pedagogy: A multitude of activity and case study boxes, a glossary, self-test questions and 25 patient scenarios really bring the topics to life.

Case studies: This section contains a video case study for each nursing branch (Adult, Child, Mental Health and Learning Disability) which follows a patient journey to highlight the importance of empathic caring.

Skill Sets: This section includes video demonstrations and self-test questions for the clinical skills covered in first and second year nursing programmes, including: Infection Control, Wound Care, and Administration of Medicines. 

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Skill Checklists for Taylor's Clinical Nursing Skills A Nursing Process Approach

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Third edition - November 1, 2010
Paperback: 408 pages
ISBN-10: 0781795184
ISBN-13: 978-0781795180 

This workbook allows students to practice and record the mastery of skills found in Taylor's Clinical Nursing Skills, Third Edition by providing checklists designed to record every step of each procedure. This set of checklists is valuable as a self-assessment tool for students and a means for faculty to record student performance. 

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Taylor's Clinical Nursing Skills A Nursing Process Approach

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Third, North American Edition
November 1, 2010
Paperback: 1024 pages
ISBN-10: 078179384X
ISBN-13: 978-0781793841 

This heavily illustrated and clearly written text details over 185 basic and advanced skills, and is specifically designed to correspond with Taylor's Fundamentals of Nursing, Seventh Edition for a consistent teaching/learning experience. The procedures and skills are outlined in a step-by-step manner that follows the nursing process format (with rationales), and includes documentation guidelines and samples; a new Evidence-based Practice Feature; and Unexpected Situations, which explain how to respond to unanticipated outcomes—a feature unique to this text. 

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Study Skills for Nursing and Healthcare Students

Publisher: Longman
1st edition - 25 Jun 2009
Paperback: 440 pages
ISBN-10: 0273724592
ISBN-13: 978-0273724599 

An accessible, student-friendly handbook that covers all of the essential study skills that will ensure that you get the most out of your Nursing or Healthcare course, Study Skills for Nursing and Healthcare Students has been developed specifically to provide tried and tested advice and guidance on the most important academic and study skills that you will require throughout your time at university and beyond.

Presented in a practical and easy-to-use style, it demonstrates the immediate benefits to be gained by developing and improving these skills during each stage of your course. 

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Vital Signs for Nurses An Introduction to Clinical Observations

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
1st edition - 3 Jun 2011
Paperback: 280 pages
ISBN-10: 1405190388
ISBN-13: 978-1405190381 

Monitoring, observing and recording the vital signs of patients is a fundamental aspect of delivering quality patient care. This practical and accessible guide will develop your underpinning knowledge and skills in both theory and practice for the adult patient found either in hospital, private sector or community settings.
A must–have for health care assistants, student nurses or newly qualified registered nurses working within any health care environment, this book explores not only how to assess and monitor patients, but also covers: 

1. Legal and ethical issues
2. Infection prevention and control
3. Pain
4. Communication
5. Nutrition
6. Reflective practice
7. Continuing professional development 

This essential and practical resource also features learning objectives, case studies, a glossary of key terms, activities and multiple choice questions to assist you in your understanding of this subject. 

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Skills for Nursing & Healthcare Students Study Skills, Maths and Science

Publisher: Pearson Education
2nd edition - 11 Jan 2011
Paperback: 280 pages
ISBN-10: 0273738313
ISBN-13: 978-0273738312 

This clear, helpful and interactive book will help you prepare for and succeed in your nursing and healthcare studies. Supporting anatomy and physiology, drug administration, clinical practice and preparation for assessments, this book will give you the tools to success. Using examples from practice to bring the subjects to life, Skills for Nursing & Healthcare Students is your essential guide to the core skills you will need to master. 

The book includes guided explanations and interactive exercises that will help you brush up on your maths and study skills and get up-to-speed with anatomical terminology, the basics of the human body, chemistry and cell biology. 

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Davis's Guide to Clinical Nursing Skills

By Jacqueline Rhoads, Bonnie Juve Meeker
Publisher: F. A. Davis Company
Number Of Pages: 564
Publication Date: 2007-07-15
 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0803611641
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780803611641 

This full-color, extensively-illustrated, pocket-sized handbook offers bothstudents and clinicians an easy-to-use reference to the clinical proceduresthat nurses need to perform daily in every care setting, including critically important client teaching procedures not covered in other books.Each skill is based on the steps of the nursing process to help students apply classroom learning to the clinical setting and is organized as follows: overview, preparation, relevant nursing diagnoses, expected outcomes, equipment lists, step-by-step implementation with rationales, evaluation, and follow-up activities, and key points for reporting and recording. 

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Fundamental Nursing Skills

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• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• 1st Dec 2003
• Paperback: 240 pages
• ISBN-10: 1861564163
•  ISBN-13: 978-1861564160
• Providing forward-thinking approaches and ideas for nurses of all categories, this reference has been written primarily in response to increasing concerns regarding the perceived lack of ability in both students and newly qualified nurses to perform clinical skills. By outlining the elements of essential nursing procedure in a readily accessible format, including rationale for recommended actions and promoting evidence-based practice, this text encourages the reader to keep a record of achievement in relation to clinical skill competence. The selection of skills included is based on extensive consultation with experienced clinicians, students, clients and teachers of nursing. Each procedure has been carefully researched to provide a contemporary foundation for practice. The text also contains a rapid reference section of common terminology, conversion tables, laboratory results and other useful information.

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