Developing Practical Nursing Skills (4^th Ed.)

Developing Practical Nursing Skills, Fourth Edition helps you learn and perfect the practical skills required to become a qualified nurse. Patient-focussed and adopting a caring approach, this essential text will also help you to integrate nursing values alongside physical skills in your daily practice.

Key features include:

• Full colour text design with clear illustrations and clinical photographs to aid visual learning
• Evidence-based and clearly mapped to key guidelines to ensure best practice
• Reader-friendly style with learning outcomes, activities and reflection points to help you link theory to practice
• Scenarios from a range of settings, including community, mental health and learning disabilities nursing
• A focus on adults and young people, and with "pointers" on caring for children to promote a lifespan approach
• Free companion website providing image library, videos of key skills, and MCQs as well as additional resources for lecturers to download

This is a complete clinical skills resource for all pre-registration nursing students.

Practical Nursing Skills: A Caring Approach. The Nurse’s Approach and Communication: Foundations for Compassionate Care. Infection Prevention and Control. Measuring and Monitoring Vital Signs. Administering Medicines. Caring for People with impaired Mobility. Principles of Wound Care. Meeting Personal Hygiene Needs. Meeting Elimination Needs. Assessing and Meeting Fluid and Nutritional Needs. Assessing Physical Health and Responding to Sudden Deterioration. Managing Pain and Promoting Comfort and Sleep. Index.

Lesley Baillie PhD, MSc, BA(Hons), RGN, RNT - Reader in Health Care, University of Bedfordshire