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With a brand new author team of experienced nurses, this second edition has been completely rewritten to reflect the latest nursing competencies and professional knowledge. It ensures readers have everything they need to deliver the best nursing care.
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With a brand new team of expert authors, the second edition of the central series title the Oxford Handbook of Adult Nursing has been completely rewritten for today's nurse. Brought fully up to date with the latest nursing competencies and professional knowledge, it ensures you have everything you need to deliver appropriate nursing care and interventions. Designed to reflect the NMC nursing competencies, it covers key nursing values and standards, communication, clinical practice and decision making, and professional development. The Oxford Handbook of Adult Nursing is written by nurses, for nurses, to provide concise, practical, and expert advice on all aspects of the nurse's role. Designed as a comprehensive and reliable guide to the care of adults, this new edition reflects how nurses relate to patients, engage critically with professional knowledge, and organise and deliver appropriate nursing care and interventions. With concise and comprehensive summaries of key nursing values and communication skills when dealing with diverse clinical populations, the role of the nurse is fully detailed as a provider of clinical care, as well as a leader, manager, and member of a broad multidisciplinary team. Clinical nursing practice is addressed using a systems-based approach, providing an overview of clinical conditions, investigations, and treatments, including frequently prescribed medicines, while highlighting key nursing practice considerations.Each chapter of the handbook lists useful sources of further information, primarily easily-accessible on-line resources. To help you achieve the best possible results for your patients, the authors offer a wealth of recommendations, guidance and information from their years of experience. Together with the complementary Oxford Handbook of Clinical Skills in Adult Nursing, this handbook provides nursing students and general adult nurses with a robust framework for thinking about, and practicing, safe and compassionate, values based nursing. Whether the reader needs a comprehensive introduction to adult nursing or a reliable resource to dip into when the need arises, the Oxford Handbook of Adult Nursing will be an invaluable companion for years to come.
Author Biography
Dr Maria Flynn has substantial knowledge, skills and experience in general adult nursing, applied health research and higher education management. Her academic work focuses on developing undergraduate and postgraduate programmes to advance critical engagement with nursing care and professional practice, maintaining core values of academic excellence. Her contribution to health professional education and student experience at Liverpool spans all levels from access programmes to PhD supervision. Commissioned research includes projects to help nurses interpret meaning and generate evidence relevant to practice, resulting in regular contributions to peer reviewed journals and invited international keynote conference presentations. Consultancy and knowledge exchange work encompasses a wide network of academic colleagues, nurses, allied health professional groups, service commissioners/providers, members of the public and European partners.Dr Dave Mercer has considerable knowledge, skills, and experience in providing quality higher healthcare education programmes. He is focused on professional training and research that promotes progressive clinical practice, and committed to a philosophy that values diversity, inclusion, and anti-discriminatory working. For twenty years he has contributed to the undergraduate adult nursing degree programme at Liverpool University, post-graduate curricula, CPD and PhD supervision. With broad recognition in forensic care, his theoretical interests are informed by a critical sociological background. He was Adjunct Professor in the Department of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Canada (2013-2017) and has co-authored/edited five textbooks, published in peer-review journals, and delivered invited international keynote conference papers.
Table of Contents
Section 1: Professional nursing values1: Professional nursing values2: Values led nursing research3: Safety in the clinical environment4: Medicines management5: Record keeping and social mediaSection 2: Communication and interpersonal skills6: Communication in a healthcare context7: Dignity and respect8: Culturally sensitive communication9: Communicating concerns about healthcare10: Conflict resolution11: Breaking 'bad news'Section 3: Nursing practice and decision making12: Risk assessment13: Physiological values14: Respiratory conditions15: Cardiovascular conditions16: Neurological conditions17: Gastro-intestinal conditions18: Renal & urinary tract conditions19: Diabetes20: Musculoskeletal conditions21: Conditions of the eyes, ears, nose, and throat22: Surgery23: Pain24: Palliative care25: Death and dying26: Clinical emergenciesSection 4: Leadership and teamwork27: Leadership28: Teamwork29: Professional development30: Nursing collectivism31: Patient and public involvement in healthcareAppendicesAppendix 1: Waterlow ToolAppendix 2: MUST Screening ToolAppendix 3: Risk Assesment for VTEAppendix 4: Height and Weight Conversion Chart
Review
Review from previous edition Informative and very useful - never leave for a shift without this little book. I have learned so much from it. A great book for student nurses * Amazon review *This book is everything you will EVER need to know, and it fits in your handbag. Need I say anymore? The book is well written, simply worded and full of useful information. I bring this to university with me every day and there isn't a day goes by that I don't use it. Cheap for all the information it gives. All round BRILLIANT * Amazon review *It is an invaluable learning tool and will be of great benefit during my training. * Student Nurse H. Moseley, University of Wolverhampton *
Long Description
With a brand new team of expert authors, the second edition of the central series title the Oxford Handbook of Adult Nursing has been completely rewritten for today's nurse. Brought fully up to date with the latest nursing competencies and professional knowledge, it ensures you have everything you need to deliver appropriate nursing care and interventions. Designed to reflect the NMC nursing competencies, it covers key nursing values and standards,communication, clinical practice and decision making, and professional development. The Oxford Handbook of Adult Nursing is written by nurses, for nurses, to provide concise, practical, and expert advice on all aspects of the nurse's role. Designed as a comprehensive and reliable guide to the care of adults, this new edition reflects how nurses relate to patients, engage critically with professional knowledge, and organise and deliver appropriate nursing care and interventions. With concise and comprehensive summaries of key nursing values and communication skillswhen dealing with diverse clinical populations, the role of the nurse is fully detailed as a provider of clinical care, as well as a leader, manager, and member of a broad multidisciplinary team. Clinical nursing practice is addressed using a systems-based approach, providing an overview of clinical conditions,investigations, and treatments, including frequently prescribed medicines, while highlighting key nursing practice considerations.Each chapter of the handbook lists useful sources of further information, primarily easily-accessible on-line resources. To help you achieve the best possible results for your patients, the authors offer a wealth of recommendations, guidance and information from their years of experience. Together with the complementary Oxford Handbook of Clinical Skills in Adult Nursing, this handbook provides nursing students and general adult nurses with a robust framework for thinking about, and practicing, safe and compassionate, values based nursing. Whether the reader needs a comprehensive introduction to adult nursing or a reliable resource to dip into when the need arises, the Oxford Handbook of Adult Nursing will be an invaluable companion for years tocome.
Review Quote
It is an invaluable learning tool and will be of great benefit during my training.
Feature
A must-have reference guide for all adult nurses and nursing students in both hospital and community settingsDesigned to support nurses in their clinical thinking and decision makingReflects the four domains of the NMC nursing competencies: Professional nursing values, Communication and interpersonal skills, Nursing practice and decision making and leadership, Management and teamworkAddresses the philosophy, principles and practice of adult nursing in an accessible and convenient formatRecognises the inter-relatedness of physical and mental functioning and wellbeingPractice section takes a systems approach with each chapter giving an overview of clinical conditions, investigations and treatments, including frequently prescribed medicines, and highlighting relevant nursing practice considerationsBrings together specialist and generalist clinical nurses, nursing students, educators and researchers, with substantial experience in adult nursing practice, education and research
Details ISBN0198743475 Publisher Oxford University Press Year 2018 ISBN-10 0198743475 ISBN-13 9780198743477 Format Paperback Pages 672 Edition 2nd Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Dave Mercer Position Professor and Head of Epidemiological Research Unit, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany Author Dave Mercer Media Book DEWEY 610.73 Affiliation Professor and Head of Epidemiological Research Unit, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany, and Director, Social and Epidemiological Research Department, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada Language English Publication Date 2018-08-06 UK Release Date 2018-08-06 NZ Release Date 2018-08-06 Illustrator Jason Pickersgill Birth 1955 Qualifications J.D. Edition Description 2nd Revised edition Series Oxford Handbooks in Nursing Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2018-08-08 We've got this
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