Richardson Clinical Skills for Student Nurses

Theory, Practice and Reflection
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-906052-34-8
Verlag: Scion Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 560 Seiten, Web PDF

Clinical Skills for Student Nurses is a comprehensive learning resource for student nurses in the UK. This textbook is based on the NMC Essential Skills Clusters and covers all the key clinical skills required for effective and efficient practice in UK healthcare. The book maps the development of the student nurse in relation to clinical skill acquisition, focusing not only on the dexterity aspects, but also on the underpinning theory and the attitudinal aspects of skill delivery.

Using a scenario-based approach, this book relates skills to ‘real’ people and situations. In addition to providing instruction on how to perform clinical skills, it will also ask the students to reflect and consider how these skills and related principles may be transferred to other situations and contexts. Above all, the authors are offering students a friendly, interactive and visual approach to skills acquisition.

Written by an experienced team of clinical skills educators at the University of Central Lancashire, Clinical Skills provides students and lecturers with:

• up-to-date theory and evidence-based practice,

• scenarios and case studies,

• activities to encourage reflection,

• exercises for self-assessment and skills practice,

• a glossary, references and further reading.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Richardson, Robin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

PART 1 COMMUNICATION

1 Interpersonal skills

2 Assessment of patients

3 Transferring and discharging patients

4 Pain management

5 Venepuncture and cannulation

PART 2 PERSONAL CARE

6 Personal hygiene

7 Catheterisation (male and female)

8 Bowel care, suppositories and enemata

9 Skin integrity assessment and pressure area care

PART 3 CARE AND COMPASSION

10 Nutritional support, hydration and fluid balance

11 Moving and handling

12 Breaking bad news

13 Last offices

PART 4 MEDICINE MANAGEMENT

14 The legal, ethical and professional aspects of medicines management

15 The administration of medicines

16 Medication errors, drug storage and controlled drugs

PART 5 CARE MANAGEMENT

17 Observations

18 Early Warning Scores – the early detection of deterioration

19 Airway management and life support

20 Pre- and post-operative care

21 Specimen collection and infection control

Appendix: Essential Skills Clusters (ESCs) for Pre-registration Nursing Programmes

Über Autor(innen)

Richardson, Robin
Originally from County Durham, Robin began his academic career at Royal Holloway College, University of London in 1984, graduating in 1987 with a Bachelor’s degree in Human Physiology and Zoology. On graduation, Robin began his nursing career at the South Lothian College of Nursing and Midwifery in Edinburgh, eventually qualifying as a Registered General Nurse. On qualification Robin worked as a Staff Nurse at the Royal Free Hospital in London in several specialties including ENT, orthopaedic/trauma and general surgery before moving to St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington in 1994 to specialise in vascular surgery. In 1997 Robin became a Nurse Practitioner within the St Mary’s group of hospitals and commenced his teaching qualification at Thames Valley University – graduating with a master’s degree in Learning and Teaching in Healthcare in 2002, by which time he was working as a full time lecturer at TVU. In 2003 Robin moved to the University of Central Lancashire, in Preston, where he is currently the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Allied Health and Wellbeing.