Description
Book SynopsisThe guidelines and skills required to become a nurse are always changing and it can be difficult to stay up-to-date with the current standards. This book has been specifically designed to address the main skills you need to meet NMC requirements.
Becoming a Nurse will demystify what you need to know while preparing you to meet NMC standards and become a confident, practising professional. The book introduces the many subjects outside the biological which are none the less essential for both pre-registration and practising nurses. This new edition has been thoroughly updated throughout, and includes four new chapters on psychosocial concepts for nursing; sociological concepts for nursing; spiritual care; and preceptorship and transition. Like the previous edition the book also covers:
Law, ethics and policy
Management and leadership
Communication, interpersonal skills and interprofessional working
Evidence based practice
Medicines management
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The State of UK Nursing
2. Professional Issues
3. Ethics
4. Law
5. Health Policy
6. Management and Leadership
7. Interprofessional Working
8. Evidence-based Practice
9. Assessment
10. Sociological Concepts for Nursing
11. Psychological Concepts for Nursing
12. Spiritual Care
13. Judgement and Decision-making
14. Communication and Interpersonal Skills
15. Public Health
16. Learning and Teaching
17. Personal and Professional Development Through Reflective Practice
18. Medicines Management
19. Preceptorship and Transition
