Nursing Practice and Health Care, 5th Edition (Hodder Arnold by Sue Hinchliff, Sue Norman, Jane Schober

By Sue Hinchliff, Sue Norman, Jane Schober

Nursing perform and future health Care is a vital significant other to pre-registration nursing schooling programmes, for these learning at measure and degree point, and for college students on post-registration classes. This 5th variation has been thoroughly revised to mirror the present expert and academic specifications for these getting ready for registration as a nurse, whereas conserving a robust specialise in perform and reflecting the wishes of these requiring nursing and overall healthiness care. also, it makes use of the 2008 NMC Code because the cornerstone for lots of of its chapters. construction at the adjustments within the fourth variation, the necessities of pre-registration nursing programmes, the health for perform initiative and different advancements in wellbeing and fitness coverage in the 4 international locations of the united kingdom, the booklet offers a useful help for college students as they research the abilities in severe pondering that might allow the improvement of an dependable, specialist practitioner. either pupil- and patient-centred, the booklet is split into 5 elements: views on nursing, studying nursing, Practisting nursing, Key points of care help and improvement.

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It is three in the morning. I am working alone in a dimly lit side-room, taking the observations of an elderly lady who has been drifting in and out of consciousness for several days. As I quietly count her respirations, she suddenly opens her eyes and clasps my hand with a strength that is quite unexpected. ’ I am momentarily startled, but I immediately sense the multiple layers of what she is asking me. I feel out of my depth, I feel inadequate to the task. But, most of all, I feel privileged to be there and, as I answer, that is my starting point.

2 Tickbox nursing: the risks of the ‘nursing is doing’ model A while ago my husband was admitted to an accident and emergency department with severe breathing difficulties. ) At the point of admission, his vital signs were recorded and he was given oxygen and salbutamol; within a short time he was feeling much better, and he was transferred to a ward. Soon it was time for the routine task of ‘doing the obs’. Nowadays, of course, this task is computerised, and because ‘the machine does all the work’ the task was, in this hospital, delegated to a health care assistant.

My optimism also relates to some aspects of a nurse’s training that do not appear under the subject headings of the curriculum. I have already described the blinkered way in which I embarked upon my training. If I had been asked during my foundation year what I wished to do upon achieving my qualification, my answer would certainly have been restricted to the pursuit of one or two specific nursing disciplines. I would have argued quite strongly that job satisfaction 15 Being a nurse lay almost entirely in the subject matter, without giving any thought to the working environment or the method of delivery.

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