Nursing practice: knowledge and care

Nursing Practice is the essential, textbook to support you throughout your entire nursing degree, from your first year onwards. It explores all the clinical and professional issues that you need to know in one complete volume. Written in the context of the latest Nursing and Midwifery Council Standards for Pre-Registration Nursing Education and the Essential Skills Clusters, this book covers all fields of nursing: Adult, Child, Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and also Maternity care, in both acute and community settings. With full colour illustrations, and plenty of activities and user-

Includes Internet access code on inside front cover.

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Brief Contents; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the Editors; Contributors; How to Use Your Textbook; About the Companion Website; Unit 1: Contextualising the Art and Science of Nursing; 1: Nursing: Past, Present and Future; Introduction; A Glance at the History of Nursing; Pre-history; Ancient History; Florence Nightingale (1820-1910); Mary Seacole (1805-1881); The development of education and regulation for nurses; The development of modern nursing; Virginia Henderson (1897-1996); Dorothea Orem (1914-2007); Hildegard Peplau (1909-1999)

Patricia BennerMargaret Newman; The Beginnings of the NHS and Nursing; Early Nursing Research; Project 2000; Drivers for Change; Modernising Nursing Careers; The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and Nurse Education; Essential Skills Clusters; Current Nurse Education; The Francis Report; The New Framework for Nursing and Midwifery; Role of the Nurse; The NHS and Healthcare Reform; Conclusion; References; Test Yourself; Answers; 2: The Professional Nurse and Contemporary Health Care; Introduction; The Nurse as a Professional; The NMC Code of Professional Conduct; Fitness to Practise

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