Clinical Skills
Subtitle: the Essence of Caring
Contributors: MacDonald, Caroline; Staniland, Karen
Publisher: McGraw-Hill International (UK) Ltd.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Maidenhead
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780335239764
Subjects: Clinical competence; Nursing
Description: Covers the core clinical skills curriculum and offers an approach to the importance of delivering excellent nursing care. This book provides various fundamental skills, including Record Keeping, Communication and Pressure Ulcers. It offers a different way of relating theory to practice, and is suitable for CFP and nursing students.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Front Cover Page; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Brief table of contents page; Detailed table of contents; Guide to the interactive Media Tool DVD; Case Study Guide; Guide to using the book; Custom Publishing Solutions: Let us help make our content your solution; Make the grade!; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Preface; About the editors; About the contributors; 1 Clinical skills: the essence of caring Caroline MacDonald and Karen Staniland; 2 Communication Helen Iggulden and Naomi Sharples; 3 Record keeping Margaret Hutson and Elizabeth Millar.; title: 4 The care environment Calbert H. Douglas, Mary R. Douglas and Karen Staniland5 Privacy and dignity Helen Iggulden and Ruth Chadwick; 6 Safety of patients with mental health needs Elizabeth Collier and Sean Welsh; 7 Self-care Alison Brown; 8 Personal and oral hygiene Jane Ewen and Pamela Kirkpatrick; 9 Food and nutrition Karen Staniland and Frances Gascoigne; 10 Continence, bowel and bladder care Susan H. Walker; 11 Pressure ulcers Melanie Stephens and Hel.