Nursing

An overview of patient centred nursing; the individual in his normal environment; assessment; the patient on admission; assessment of patients' needs; the disease process; defining nursing problems; plans for care; care plans; maintaining records; problems and plans for care; towards diagnosis; planning care - medical interventions; planning care - surgical interventions; the elderly patient; the dying patient; evaluation and discharge; measuring outcomes; the patient on discharge; care in the community; life after hospital; community services; the changing role of the nurse.