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Learning to Care

The Nursing Associate

  • 1st Edition - January 9, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Ian Peate
  • Language: English

Edited by a world-renowned authority, Learning to Care: The Nursing Associate has been prepared by a team of experienced nurse educationalists and practitioners to meet the learn… Read more

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Edited by a world-renowned authority, Learning to Care: The Nursing Associate has been prepared by a team of experienced nurse educationalists and practitioners to meet the learning needs of the new Nursing Associate. Richly illustrated throughout, this exciting resource is designed to fully equip trainee nursing associates for their future role as professional healthcare providers with chapters ranging from ‘how to learn’ and essay writing to communication skills, reflective practice, and the role of evidence-based clinical decision making.

Complete with a full exploration of basic anatomy and physiology, together with the care and treatment of common disorders, Learning to Care: The Nursing Associate also comes with a wide range of helpful learning features such as ‘Hot Spots’ and the ‘Medicine Trolley’, all designed to aid learning and help foster safe clinical practice. The volume comes complete with a downloadable image bank to assist with assignments.

Learning to Care: The Nursing Associate will be ideal for all Trainee Nursing Associates and Health Care Assistants wishing to enhance their knowledge-base as well as those on Enrolled Nurse programs overseas.

Key features

  • Clear, no nonsense writing style helps make learning easy
  • Provides helpful advice on study skills and essay writing
  • Incorporates the 15 Standards of the Care Certificate
  • Learning objectives at the start of each chapter enable readers to monitor their progress
  • Key Words feature encourage familiarisation with a new vocabulary
  • ‘Self Test’ questions at the start of each chapter allow readers to establish their baseline knowledge
  • Reflection and Critical Awareness features encourage critical thinking and recall of essential information
  • Medicine Trolley feature outlines common drugs, their usage, routes of administration and side effects
  • Case Studies give practical context to core information
  • Care in the Home Setting, At the GP Surgery and Communities of Care boxes illustrate healthcare provision outside the hospital environment
  • Includes anatomy and physiology and pathophysiology of important diseases and disorders
  • OSCEs help trainee nursing associates prepare for examinations
  • Helpful glossary provides definitions of new terms

Readership

Trainee Nursing Associates

Table of contents

Part 1 Learning to Care

1. Health and social care provision

2. The Care Certificate

3. Learning to learn

4. Professional and regulatory bodies

5. The law and the NA

6. Professional issues

7. Documentation

8. The 6Cs

9. Effective communication skills

10. Taking a patient history & physical examination

11. A systematic approach to nursing care

12. Managing care provision

13. Reflective practice

14. Using an evidence base

15. Health education and promotion

16. Infection prevention and control

17. Medicines management

18. Moving and handling

19. First aid

20. Data gathering and patient monitoring

21. Breaking bad news

22. Essay writing

Part 2 Providing Effective Care

23. Nutrition

24. Cancer

25. Skin care

26. Skin disorders

27. Immunity

28. Pain management

29. Cardiovascular disorders

30. Haematological disorders

31. Respiratory disorders

32. Gastro intestinal disorders

33. Urinary disorders

34. Reproductive disorders

35. Endocrine disorders

36. Neurological disorders

37. ENT disorders

38. Ophthalmological disorders

39. Musculoskeletal disorders

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 22, 2019
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Ian Peate

Affiliations and expertise
Editor in Chief, British Journal of Nursing; Consultant Editor, Journal of Paramedic Practice; Consultant Editor, International Journal for Advancing Practice; Visiting Professor, Northumbria University; Visiting Professor, St Georges University of London and Kingston University London; Professorial Fellow, Roehampton University; Visiting Senior Clinical Fellow, University of Hertfordshire, UK