The fourth edition of this bestselling textbook builds your skills for accurate, person-centred assessment and care planning. Working step-by-step through the process, it equips you with practical assessment tools and models for care planning. Its holistic approach helps you to think in the round about an individual's physical health, mental health and other needs, as well as the broader social and environmental factors that influence their lives and care. Fully updated in line with contemporary evidence-based practice, this book will support you through your assignments, placements and into your nursing career.
Key features:
* Each chapter is mapped to the 2018 NMC Standards
* Introduces commonly used assessment tools alongside broader considerations, including preventative healthcare assessment and acting in a patient's best interests.
* Scenarios and case studies illustrate theory, principles and complex assessment
* Develops the critical thinking and decision-making skills which are essential for effective practice
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Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Maße
Höhe: 244 mm
Breite: 170 mm
Dicke: 11 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-5296-1000-0 (9781529610000)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Peter Ellis is an independent nursing and health and social care writer and consultant, and CEO of Intelligent Care Software. He is also an Expert Witness for nursing and social care. Peter was most recently a Registered Manager and Nursing Director in the Hospice and social care settings. Prior to this, he was a senior lecturer and programme director at Canterbury Christ Church University where he taught understanding research, among other topics, to undergraduate and postgraduate nursing students. Peter is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University and has a special interest, including ongoing research, in palliative and end-of-life care Dr Mooi Standing is an independent academic nursing consultant with over 40 years' experience that includes: (i) practising mental health and adult nursing in a range of hospital and community settings; (ii) lecturing pre-registration and post-registration nursing students from certificate to Master's level and presenting scholarly papers at international nursing conferences; (iii) researching how nurses develop clinical decision-making skills and publishing articles, books and chapters on this topic for nursing students, registered nurses and advanced practitioners; and (iv) providing external consultancy in curriculum development and quality enhancement of nursing programmes both nationally and internationally.
Mooi is currently a Series Editor for Learning Matters' Transforming Nursing Practice book series and has had extensive experience serving as a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Quality Assurance Reviewer of nursing educational programmes, and as a Professional Regulator as a Panellist on the NMC Practice Committee.
Chapter 1: Person centred patient assessment and practice
Chapter 2: Understanding our role in patient assessment
Chapter 3: Making sense of patient information
Chapter 4: Assessment tools
Chapter 5: Nursing diagnosis
Chapter 6: Principles of care planning
Chapter 7: Nursing models and care planning
Chapter 8: Ethical aspects of patient assessment
Chapter 9: Patient assessment and decision making
