Contents: *. An introduction to clinical supervision * Practice development in nursing * Implementing clinical supervision * Approaches to clinical supervision * Models for clinical supervision * Legal and ethical issues in clinical supervision * Enhancing the supervisory relationship * Clinical supervision in action * Evaluating clinical supervision
International Practice Development in Nursing and Healthcare builds on Practice Development in Nursing, edited by Brendan McCormack, Kim Manly and Rob Garbett and is the first book to develop a truly international practice development perspective.
Medical - surgical nursing and fundamentals of nursing concepts must work as partners to ensure novice or advance beginner nurses practice their clinical, managerial, organizational, and research skills in optimum quality.
Contents: 1. Health-Perception-Health-management Pattern. 2. Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern. 3. Elimination Pattern. 4. Activity-Exercise Pattern. 5. Sleep-Rest Pattern. 6. Cognitive-Perceptual Pattern. 7. Slef-Perception-Self-Concept Pattern. 8. Role-Relationship Pattern. 9. Sexuality-Reproductive Pattern. 10. Coping-Stress-Tolerance Pattern. 11. Value-Belief Pattern.
This edition of NANDA International's work on the development of nursing diagnoses-NANDA Nursing Diagnoses : definitions and Classification, 2003-2004 contains 12 new diagnoses, including 11 health-promotion/wellness diagnoses, and three revisions.
Contents: 1. Getting your bearings. 2. Health is everbody's business. 3. The human body in action. 4. Nutrition 5. Family living 6. Maternal and child health 7. Illness conditions 8. Nursing is an art
Features include the folloeing: - Step-by-step communication teachnques are presented to improve conversational effectiveness. - Real-life scenarios illustrate responses that help nurses handle diverse situations encountered in prefessional practice. - Self-test questionnaiers promote self-reflection and present several ways to provide feedback to patients.
Theory helps provide knowledge to improve practice by desribing, explaining, predicting, and controlling phenomena. Nurses power is increased through theoretical knowledge because systematically developed methods are more likely to be successful.
Thhis book is designed to unfold thethought processes inherent in nursing and analyze the origins of its ideas. The author's intent is to have the book take part in the ongoing healthy dialogue about the role of theory in the development of the discipline of nursing and add to the knowledge necessary to continue the enhancement of such development.