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This comprehensive text introduces the core clinical skills and competencies a newly-qualified nurse is required to have for professional practice. It is divided into five sections looking at: Care and Compassion and Communication; Essential Skills; Organisational Aspects of Care; Safety and Protection; and Nutrition and Fluid Balance. Designed to allow readers to develop and enhance their clinical skills with one key textbook, each chapter contains learning outcomes, recommendations for practice, case studies, activities, 'clinical significance' highlights and step-by-step guides to important procedures.
List of contents
1. Professional Role of the Nurse
Part 1: Care and Compassion and Communication
2. Communication
3. Personal care
4. Elimination
5. Pain Assessment and Management
6. End of Life Care
Part 2: Essential skills
7. Observations and Monitoring (vital signs)
8. Monitoring and Interpreting
9. Oxygenation
10. Emergency Management of the Patient and Resuscitation
Part 3: Organisational aspects of care
11. Moving and Handling
12. Wound Care
13. Pre-Operative and Post-Operative Care
14. Tracheostomy Care
Part 4: Safety and Protection
15. Infection Control
16. Safe and Accurate Administration of Medicines
Part 5: Nutrition and Fluid balance
17. Nutrition
18. Hydration and Fluid Balance
About the author
Tina Moore is a Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing at Middlesex University, UK. She teaches nursing assessment, clinical skills and care interventions for both pre-qualifying and post-qualifying nurses. She is also a Middlesex University Teaching Fellow.
Sheila Cunningham is an Associate Professor in Adult Nursing at Middlesex University, UK. She has a breadth of experience teaching nurses both pre- and post-registration and she supports mentors supporting students in practice. She is also a Middlesex University Teaching Fellow and holds a Principal Fellowship at the Higher Education Academy. She is currently programme leader for the BSc European nursing and is passionate about the future of nursing and nurse education.
