Vital Notes for Nurses
Principles of Care
Vital Notes for Nurses
1. Auflage Mai 2007
246 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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.
* Examines assessment, planning and evaluation of care
* Covers risk management and prioritisation of care
* Addresses the use of NICE guidance and National service
frameworks
* Explores clinical effectiveness, practice development and quality
assurance
* Includes learning objectives, scenarios and case studies
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
on the evidence base for current practice.
Principles of Care is aimed at students and newly qualified
staff and, in this respect, hits the bullseye...
This book is one which I would be glad to have on my
bookshelf as a permanent reference.'
Nursing Standard
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.
