Achieving Competencies For Nursing Practice
A Handbook For Student Nurses
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2014
290 pages
978-0-335-24675-5 (ISBN)
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This book will offer examples to nursing students to enable a creative and innovative understanding of how the competencies may be demonstrated in the many contexts where practice occurs with individuals, groups or possibly communities.
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Content
- Achieving Competencies for Nursing Practice: A handbook for student nurses
- Achieving Competencies for Nursing Practice: A handbook for student nurses
- Praise for this book
- Contents
- The editors and contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. The importance of evidence-based professional nursing practice
- Section 1: Professional values
- 2. Professional values for nursing
- 3. Owning your standards of care
- Section 2: Communication and interpersonal skills
- 4. Developing effective communication and interpersonal skills
- 5. Developing skills in solution-focused interactions
- 6. Com munication in difficult situations
- Section 3: Nursing practice and decision-making
- 7. An introduction to clinical decision-making in practice
- 8. Advanced decision-making: involving patients and relatives in decisions on care
- Section 4: Leadership, management and team working
- 9. Effective leadership, management and team working skills
- 10. Enhancing and developing leadership, management and team working skills in the community setting
- 11. Leadership, management and team working in an acute care setting
- Section 5: Achieving competencies: simulation, working with mentors and learning when working abroad
- 12. Simulation: crafting your care
- 13. Working with mentors: how to get the most from working with your mentors in practice
- 14. Learning abroad: the student experience of nursing in a European or international context
- Domains Appendix: NMC Competencies for entry to the register
- Index
- Back Cover
