A Handbook for Trainee Nursing Associates - Couverture souple

Davison, Neil; Matthews, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1914962044 ISBN 13 : 9781914962042

Editeur : Lantern Publishing Ltd, 2023

Synopsis

A Handbook for Trainee Nursing Associates provides a concise introduction to the essential background knowledge that aspiring nursing associates need as a foundation for their training.

Each chapter is linked to the outcomes of the NMC Standards of proficiency for nursing associates. This book will underpin your studies and enable you to support registered nurses in caring for people in a variety of health and care settings. It will also give a solid grounding for nursing associates who want to follow the progression route into graduate nursing.

Packed with activities to help you apply theory to contemporary practice, A Handbook for Trainee Nursing Associates covers the core of your studies:

• Study skills
• Professional and communication skills
• Values and ethics
• Society and health
• Psychology and health
• Public health and health promotion
• Research and evidence-based practice
• Mental health
• Learning disabilities

A Handbook for Trainee Nursing Associates gives you an accessible introduction to the knowledge and understanding you will need at the start of your training and into your healthcare career.

Contents

Preface; Acknowledgements; About the authors; Introduction: background and context

Chapter 1: Study skills
Neil Davison

Chapter 2: Professional skills
Linda Bale

Chapter 3: Values and ethics
Anneyce Knight and Nevin Mehmet

Chapter 4: Society and its impact upon health
David Matthews

Chapter 5: Psychology and health
Graham Jones

Chapter 6: Public health and health promotion
Anneyce Knight

Chapter 7: Research and evidence-based practice
Neil Davison and David Matthews

Chapter 8: Mental health
David Matthews

Chapter 9: Learning disability
Josh Hodgson

Index

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Neil Davison worked in trauma and orthopaedics after the completion of his state registration and orthopaedic nursing qualifications in the 1970s and early 1980s. He lectured at Bangor University for two decades and has extensive experience of teaching drug calculations and numeracy to both pre- and post-registration students. He was made a Teaching Fellow at the university in 1999 and retired in 2012. Since then, Neil has continued to teach on healthcare courses in the further education sector and in the hospitals of North Wales.
David Matthews is a Lecturer in health and social care at Bangor University, and is programme leader for its BA Health and Social Care, where he teaches issues and subjects relating to the social determinants of health and health policy, as well as supervising undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations. His research interests and publications focus on critical and materialist understandings of the welfare state and social policy, with a particular emphasis on the impact of neoliberalism and capitalism for health and mental health. In addition, he has an interest in the development and evolution of Welsh health policy during the era of devolution.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lantern Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1914962044
• ISBN 13: 9781914962042
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 206
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible