Nursing study and placement skills

Edited by Sue Hart

Prepare For Practice

All the advice and skills nursing students need for the classroom and placement in a single book.
Equips first year students to meet the demands of their course and acts as a handy reference right through to registration.
Practical advice and tips from experienced student nurses make the book relevant to students' needs while academic authorship guarantees reliability of content.
Easy to dip into allowing students to find the help they are looking for fast.
A dedicated Online Resource Centre provides further helpful tips, exercises and features for students and lecturers.

Nursing study and placement skills

Edited by Sue Hart

Description

The journey to becoming a registered health professional requires student nurses to take on a challenging combination of academic and placement based learning. Nursing Study and Placement Skills has been developed specifically to provide students with a single text covering advice and skills for all aspects of the pre-registration nursing course from academic study and clinical placement, to professional and personal success.

Nursing Study and Placement Skills follows the student journey from day one, providing first year students with reliable, easy-to-read, practical advice to help them find their feet. Throughout the book clear links are made between 'study' and 'placement' skills, demonstrating how these two aspects of the curriculum are interrelated. In addition to insights from mentors and lecturers, the book uniquely offers advice from real nursing students, allowing readers the benefit of their experience.

With this single, student-friendly volume the authors have provided a one-stop-shop of invaluable advice to help student nurses to succeed in all areas of the pre-registration course and develop their nursing practice.

Online Resource Centre
The Online Resource Centre to accompany Nursing study and placement skills features:

For students:
DT Links to key sources of further information and guidelines, helping students to save time.
DT An interactive glossary to help students learn important nursing terms.
DT Study tips and practical checklists to download for placement.
DT Updates on the review of pre-registration nursing education.
For lecturers:
DT Figures from the book to use in teaching.

Nursing study and placement skills

Edited by Sue Hart

Prepare For Practice

Part One: GETTING ON!
1. So you want to be a nurse
2. Welcome to the course
3. Settling in
4. Getting organized and managing time
Part Two: GETTING THROUGH!
5. Learning in a University
6. Study skills guide to successful assessments
7. Student nurse placements: the big picture
8. Preparing you for clinical practice
9. How you will learn in practice
10. First steps into practice as a student nurse
11. More about the four fields of nursing
12. Reflective practice
13. Assessment of clinical practice
14. The profession of nursing
15. Developing your professional nursing skills
Part Three: THRIVING AND SURVIVING
16. Challenges you may face
17. Moving on

Nursing study and placement skills

Edited by Sue Hart

Prepare For Practice

Author Information

Sue Hart is a Senior Lecturer at South Bank University, London. She has many years experience teaching first year students and until 2008 was Director of Studies for the Common Foundation Programme at the University of Surrey.

Series Editor Karen Holland is Associate Professor of Nursing at Salford University, editor of the journal Nurse Education in Practice and the author of many successful nursing textbooks.

Contributors:

Sheila Muller, Placement Learning Facilitator, Surrey NHS Primary Care Trust.

Liz Rockingham, Nurse Tutor, Lifelong Learning Framework, Centre for Research in Nursing and Midwifery Education, University of Surrey.

Debbie Roberts, Nursing Lecturer School of Nursing, University of Salford.