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Contents: Beyond project 2000 - the changing face of nursing education; Teaching with confidence; Critical thinking; How are they doing? - assessing your students; Getting it right - the legal and professional aspects of assessment; An effective placement - creating a learning environment; Learning from experience - enabling students to benefit from reflection in partnership; Appendices.
Providing help on advanced consultation skills, this book tells how nurses working in first contact or nurse-led services need to be able to make an accurate assessment of why the patient has attended, come up with a diagnosis of the problem and engage the patient in an evidence-based management plan.
Offers guidance and ideas for teaching and learning. This work explains how nurses make clinical decisions through the development of narratives, and how, using narratives, nurses gain a far more intimate knowledge of the patient than doctors can. It is useful for students of nursing, registered nurses and nurse managers.
Teaching and Learning in Primary Care has been specially designed for undergraduate and vocational teaching. It combines both practical advice and theory covering day-to-day teaching and learning in the real world. It also encourages trainers to become more involved in teaching and supervising. This essential guide provides vital guidance and support to general practitioners with teaching responsibilities, undergraduate healthcare lecturers and tutors and healthcare professionals in primary care.
Focusing on measuring competence in statutory and mandatory training areas, this text emphasises the need to strengthen policy and practice in these areas, helping organisations reduce the risk of being subject to litigation.
This edition provides updated information and developments in support services and incorporates recent research on bereavement. It also gives more prominence to the needs of grieving children and youngsters.
This comprehensive and practical guide helps professionals and staff within hospitals change the way they collect record store and use clinical information about patients. It illustrates how clinical governance and evidence-based practice can be easily addressed by modernising clinical information practice to benefit patients and improve staff and service efficiency. As well as helping organisations define and establish improved systems this book is of continuing use for all healthcare professionals who make store and use patient records. 'High quality shared record keeping is recognised as being fundamentally important to good patient care. This book offers an excellent practical approach to addressing the changes needed in clinical record keeping to support improved patient care clinical governance better management information and the move towards electronic patient records. It brings together a strong clinical focus with the informatics principles needed to support a successful move to modern record keeping.' Yvonne Baker and Tricia Woodhead in the Foreword It will be a useful guide for clinicians and all other health professionals dealing with clinical information.
Addresses the underlying biological abnormalities of Dementia in Alzheimer's Disease (DAD) in people with Down syndrome. Brings together recent research findings relating to the neuropathology, genetics, blood markers and neurophysiology of Alzheimer's disease in older adults with Down syndrome.
This is truly a comprehensive, user-friendly survival guide for the newly qualified staff nurse, equating to a 'being a registered nurse for the terrified' handbook. This book sets you off on your journey from getting the most out of your final placement, preparing for the application for the post, easing you into dealing with common clinical problems, using experts to help you, then towards becoming a mentor and gate-keeping the profession In addition, there are management aspects, including delegation, objective setting, budgeting, and also addressing those difficult concepts like prioritisa.
The basic aim of this book is to help carers and professionals living or working with adults with intellectual disability to understand further Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.