Learning objectives

 

Chapter 1

  • What is nursing and what is a nurse?
  • A very brief history of nursing
  • An Introduction to the fields of nursing practice
  • Professionalism and nursing
  • The attributes of good nursing

Chapter 2

  • Studying for a nursing degree
  • NMC standards and ESCs
  • Learning about all fields of nursing
  • What is expected of you as an independent and professional learner
  • Learning in a placement
  • The challenges you might meet

Chapter 3

  • The relationship between theory and practice
  • An introduction to evidence-based practice
  • Reflection
  • The relationship between reflection and evidence-based practice
  • Strategies for finding and judging the quality of evidence
  • The importance of correctly citing sources of evidence

Chapter 4

  • Academic writing
  • Assessment skills
  • Academic support

Chapter 5

  • What do we mean by ethics?
  • The importance of values
  • Ethical theories
  • Ethical principles
  • Ethical decision-making

Chapter 6

  • Understanding negligence
  • Court cases
  • The law and providing healthcare
  • Confidentiality

Chapter 7

  • An overview of accountability
  • The importance of professionalism in nursing
  • Fitness to practise

Chapter 8

  • What is professional resilience?
  • Professional requirements for good health
  • Psychological concepts for resilience

Chapter 9

  • The changing NHS structure and systems
  • Being a leader as a nursing student
  • A leadership model for nursing students
  • Spreading innovation

Chapter 10

  • Quality in health and social care settings
  • Why quality monitoring is important
  • A definition of clinical governance
  • An overview of the seven pillars of clinical governance
  • The role of the nursing student in ensuring quality care

Chapter 11

  • What makes good care and what makes care good?
  • ••How you can apply quality care initiatives within your practice
  • ••The role of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) in making care good
  • ••When care is not good

Chapter 12

  • A toolbox for nursing
  • Nursing theory – how models for nursing practice are constructed
  • Using nursing philosophy in the care you deliver

Section content

Chapter 13

  • What is value-based, person-centred care?
  • Compassion
  • Caring
  • Dignity
  • Person-centred care
  • Spirituality
  • What to do if care is not value-based or person-centred

Chapter 14

  • What it means to be a patient
  • Types of carers
  • How can healthcare professionals help?
  • Planning care collaboratively

Chapter 15

  • The role of APIE
  • Assessment
  • Planning
  • Implementation
  • Evaluation

Chapter 16

  • Why communication is so important
  • Verbal and non-verbal communication
  • Self-awareness
  • Communicating with children
  • Communicating with non-English speakers

Chapter 17

  • Communication challenges in nursing
  • Handling challenging situations
  • Support for you

Chapter 18

  • Risk assessment and management in nursing
  • Risk assessment
  • The skills needed to effectively manage risk
  • Risk management

Chapter 19

  • What is record-keeping?
  • Legal and professional issues related to record-keeping
  • Ensuring you keep satisfactory records
  • Consequences of poor record-keeping
  • The role of the nursing student in record-keeping

Chapter 20

  • Clinical decision-making
  • Types of decisions
  • How nurses make sound decisions
  • The decision-making process
  • The role of patients

Chapter 21

  • Nurses’ role in health promotion
  • Defining health
  • Inequalities in health
  • Promoting health in nursing practice
  • Nurses as role models

Chapter 22

  • What do we mean by the term ‘safeguarding’?
  • Safeguarding adults
  • Safeguarding children
  • The legal framework
  • Abuse
  • The safeguarding role of nurses

Chapter 23

  • Why patient education is important
  • What is patient education?
  • Behaviour change and goal-setting
  • Understanding the nurse’s role in sourcing and sharing information

Chapter 24

  • Infection prevention and control and stand­ard precautions
  • The importance of hand hygiene
  • Standard precautions and gloves
  • Your responsibilities as a waste producer
  • Management of used linen

Chapter 25

  • Fundamental skills in the care of all patients
  • Respiratory rate
  • Pulse rate
  • Blood pressure
  • Capillary refill time
  • Temperature
  • Early warning scoring systems
  • Urine output
  • Blood glucose
  • Weight

Chapter 26

  • An understanding of types of pain
  • Assessment of pain
  • Managing pain

Chapter 27

  • Asepsis and aseptic technique
  • Asepsis and your practice
  • Specimen collection

Chapter 28

  • The skin
  • Caring for a patient with a wound
  • Pressure ulcers
  • Leg ulcers
  • Diabetic foot ulcers
  • Surgical wounds
  • Traumatic wounds
  • Wound assessment and management

Chapter 29

  • The principles of safe patient moving and handling
  • Remaining healthy
  • Efficient movement principles

Chapter 30

  • The priorities of first aid
  • The ABCDE of resuscitation
  • Medical emergencies

Chapter 31

  • Medicines optimization and holistic person-centred care
  • Administering medicines
  • Calculating the right dose

Chapter 32

  • Malnutrition in the UK
  • Nutritional screening and assessment
  • Care planning
  • Providing assistance and support
  • Adjuncts assisting a patient’s nutritional intake

Chapter 33

  • Assisting patients with their elimination needs
  • Assessing bowel functioning
  • Bedpans, urinals and commodes
  • Use of incontinence pads
  • Caring for a patient with a urinary catheter
  • Urinalysis

Chapter 34

  • Hygiene and person-centred care
  • Your role as a nurse in assisting a patient with their hygiene needs
  • Bed-bathing
  • Shaving
  • Oral care
  • Washing and trimming nails

Chapter 35

  • Cultural and spiritual considerations
  • Performing Last Offices
  • Following Last Offices
  • Psychological care
  • Caring for yourself

Chapter 36

  • A brief overview of the development of the NHS
  • Primary, secondary and tertiary care
  • The organization and delivery of health­care in the UK
  • Challenges facing the UK healthcare system
  • A patient’s journey through an experience of care

Chapter 37

  • What is public health?
  • Why public health is important
  • Inequalities in health
  • Public health policy
  • Public health practice in nursing

Chapter 38

  • Understanding the importance of interpro­fessional and multi-professional working
  • Working as an individual and working in part­nership with others
  • Benefits and challenges of interprofes­sional working

Chapter 39

  • Why psychology is applicable to nursing
  • Understanding psychology and psychologi­cal approaches
  • Psychology and the patient
  • The psychological impact of attitude

Chapter 40

  • What is sociology and why should we study it?
  • Understanding key sociological perspec­tives – family, poverty, disability and stigma

Chapter 41

  • Health policy, politics and the political con­text of nursing
  • The impact of health policy devolution in the UK
  • UK health policy themes

Chapter 42

  • The global role of the nurse
  • Differences and similarities in healthcare systems and patients’ health beliefs across countries and cultures
  • The importance of cultural competence in nursing care
  • International placements and learning opportunities