Nursing Practice : Knowledge and Care

Nursing Practice is the essential, textbook to support you throughout your entire nursing degree, from your first year onwards. It explores all the clinical and professional issues that you need to know in one complete volume.

Written in the context of the latest Nursing and Midwifery Council Standards for Pre-Registration Nursing Education and the Essential Skills Clusters, this book covers all fields of nursing: Adult, Child, Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and also Maternity care, in both acute and community settings. With full colour illustrations, and plenty of activities and user-friendly features throughout, this evidence-based text encompasses essential nursing theory and practice, providing students with information to support their success.

Learning features in the book include:

• Hear it from the experts- tips and advice from real life nurses, patients and their carers, and student nurses
• Red Flags- alerting the student to potential dangers
• Primary Care Considerations- informs students about care issues in the community setting
• Fields boxes- giving further insight into other fields of nursing, making the book relevant to all fields of nursing practice
• Medicines Management boxes provide key information about medicines
• Self-assessment and activities throughout

A companion website to this title is available at www.wileynursingpractice.com

Here you’ll find a range of resources for both the student and the lecturer, including:

• Over 350 interactive multiple choice questions
• Flashcards
• Glossary
• Links to references and further reading
• Illustrations from the book
• Worksheets

The second edition of the successful and definitive nursing textbook, Nursing Practice is designed to support the student throughout the entire nursing degree. Structured around the latest Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Conduct, it explores a range of clinical and professional issues that the student will need to know, in one complete and accessible volume.

Thoroughly updated and with full-colour, high-quality illustrations throughout, this new edition features an additional chapter on the principles of supporting families and carers in practice, advice on revalidation, as well as a number of learning features and activities to help consolidate learning.

Nursing Practice provides invaluable information to enable not just student nurses, but also those who are qualified and members of the extended nursing family, to develop a deeper understanding of their patients' needs and to ensure that they are practicing safely and effectively.