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Placement Learning in Older People Nursing

A guide for students in practice

  • 1 Edición - 7 de diciembre de 2012
  • Última edición
  • Autores: Julie McGarry, Philip Clissett, Davina Porock, Wendy Louise Walker
  • Editor: Karen Holland
  • Idioma: Inglés

Worried about your placement? Will you fit in? Will you have the right skills? What do you need to learn for practice assessments? This book will help you with all these concer… Leer más

Descripción

Worried about your placement? Will you fit in? Will you have the right skills? What do you need to learn for practice assessments?

This book will help you with all these concerns. It will tell you what to expect from the placement, what you can learn, how to link theory and practice, and how to make the most of your learning opportunities.

Puntos claves

  • A logical, step-by-step approach to preparing for a medical placement

  • Helps make the most of learning opportunities

  • Explains how to develop medical competencies, mapping specific cancer and palliative care exercises and activities to the NMC competencies

  • Narratives from other students describe what the placement will really be like

  • Honest discussion of the challenges of a medical placement to help avoid problems

  • Advice on possible approaches to situations that may arise

  • Focus on the essential evidence base of cancer and palliative care nursing, linking theory to practice

Series features:

  • A unique guide to getting the most from clinical placements

  • What to expect before a placement

  • What you can expect to learn on placement

  • How to consolidate your experience and learning

  • Clear links and examples with NMC proficiencies

  • Guidance on what to use as evidence for portfolios

  • Short case studies to link theory with practice

  • Key points reminder boxes

De interès para

Undergraduate Nursing students.

Índice

Section 1 Preparation for Practice Placement Experience: Understanding the concepts of being an Older person

Chapter 1 Exploring the concept of older people nursing

Chapter 2 Policy related to working with older people in nursing practice

Chapter 3 Attitudes to working with older people

Chapter 4 Valuing diversity

Chapter 5 Theories of ageing

Chapter 6 Dementia and delirium

Chapter 7 Core philosophies of care for older people

Chapter 8 Preparation for practice learning experience

Section 2 Placement learning opportunities : general principles of care

Chapter 9 Communication, assessment and planning care

Chapter 10 Dignity in care for older people

Chapter 11 Safeguarding older adults

Chapter 12 Family care in old age

Chapter 13 The concept of independence in old age

Chapter 14 Planning multi-disciplinary discharge

Section 3 Reflecting on the Older patient experience: Case studies

Chapter 15 Case study 1 - Caring for a patient following a stroke (cerebral vascular accident or CVA)

Chapter 16 Case study 2 - Falls prevention

Chapter 17 Case study 3 - Caring for an older patient and their family at the end of life

Chapter 18 Case study 4 - Mental health and Older people

Section 4 Consolidating Learning

Chapter 19 Reflection and future learning

Detalles del producto

  • Edición: 1
  • Última edición
  • Publicado: 28 de enero de 2013
  • Idioma: Inglés

Sobre el editor

KH

Karen Holland

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Founding Editor of Nurse Education in Practice, Senior lecturer (Honorary ), School of Health and Society, University of Salford, UK

Sobre los autores

JM

Julie McGarry

Afiliaciones y experiencia
University of Nottingham, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy, Derby, UK

DP

Davina Porock

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship, Center for Nursing Research, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA

WW

Wendy Louise Walker

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Lecturer and BSc programme leader