Evidence-based practice, practice-centred learning, and theory and practice integration are core principles for Common Foundation Programmes as laid-out by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of the UK. However, making these principles a reality for students has always been a challenge, in part because of the limited range of textbooks available. Foundation Studies for Caring: Using Student-Centred Learning is an innovative and wide-ranging new text which uses scenarios to teach students about both the concepts of caring and their application.

Foundation Skills for Caring is a clinical skills manual for Student Nurses and Allied Health Professionals which takes a student-centred learning (SCL) approach. Designed to work independently or as a companion volume to Foundation Studies for Caring: Using Student-Centred Learning, it will help students to develop skills relating to NHS core competencies.

By adopting this skills manual alongside the theory-based Studies text, lecturers will have an integrated and complete course for the Common Foundation Programme.

An 'evidence-based' approach to health care is growing in importance, but it is difficult for students and professionals to keep up-to-date with a vast and changing knowledge base. Even more challenging is the need to apply the evidence to everyday nursing practice. This book helps the reader to do just that. Bringing together a range of contributors, it explores some of the latest research in children's nursing. A particular feature is the application of the findings presented to nursing practice.