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Survive placements and practice with this essential guide for all student nurses.

Providing words of wisdom and advice from real-life student nurses, Communication Skills for Nurses is a handy, portable, and fun introduction to the key communication and interpersonal skills you'll need on placement and as a registered nurse.

Special features:

• Developed by students, for students
• Clear, straightforward, and jargon-free
• Explains how to use your interpersonal skills effectively, communicate with patients with specific...

If you're looking to develop and improve your nursing, health or social care practice, either individually or as part of a team, the Practice Development Workbook for Nursing, Health and Social Care Teams offers a wide-ranging selection of activities, tools and resources covering vital aspects of practice development. Written as a companion volume to the latest edition of the best-selling Practice Development in Nursing and Healthcare, this new resource grounds practice development in day-to-day nursing and health and social care through accessible, informative learning...

"Nursing school did not adequately prepare me for this role" and "Why didn't anyone tell me about this when I was a student?" are commonly heard complaints from new nurses during their first two "rite of passage" years following graduation. But this transition to professional practice√>=fraught with challenges, anxiety, triumphs, and tears√>=does not have to be so difficult. The Nurse Professional helps novices prepare for their transition into a "real world" role from being a student through graduation, NCLEX success, job search, first job, and beyond. It is the only...

Nurses and paramedics pass down intravenous skills to new employees as best they can, but the fine details are often missed or forgotten.

Bob Rynecki, a registered nurse and an award-winning paramedic, wrote this guide so you can establish peripheral intravenous lines easily and effectively. Taking a no-frills approach, he delivers the tricks and tips that will enable you to:

- become the go-to person for starting difficult IVs; - boost your confidence no matter what your level of experience; - succeed on the first stick - almost every time.

Many medical professionals...

Transforming Nursing Practice is a series tailor made for pre-registration student nurses. Each book in the series is:

'A fantastic little book for helping nursing students and qualified nurses to understand what a successful portfolio should look like.'
Dr Gabrielle Thorpe, School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia

This book is a...

Is the maths behind the medicine making you maudlin over taking your Nursing Calculations test? You've come to the right place Written by a nurse with countless hours of experience--and who trains other nurses every day--this plain-English, no-nonsense guide to nursing calculations and IV therapy makes it easier to come to grips with the numbers and formulas you'll encounter on the day of the exam--and in the field.

Many students and practising nurses struggle with mathematics. Luckily, this friendly guide is here to...

Transforming Nursing Practice is a series tailor made for pre-registration student nurses. Each book in the series is:

'A fantastic little book for helping nursing students and qualified nurses to understand what a successful portfolio should look like.'
Dr Gabrielle Thorpe, School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia

This book is a...

• A clear, concise and comprehensive guide to moving and handling patients
• Superbly illustrated, with full colour photographs throughout
• Practice-oriented and based on the latest evidence to provide safe and effective patient care
• Ideal for nursing students, health care assistants, newly qualified nurses, as well as physiotherapists and occupational therapists

Nurses work long hours, deal with difficult patients, and their job gets messy. So why do so many men and women enter the profession?

That question is answered in Nursing Is Caring, which highlights the experiences of Beverly Wheeler's former students at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas School of Nursing.

The students were asked to write a short paper about a patient they had taken care of since entering nursing school who had inspired them and made them realize they were in the right profession.

Their essays show that while people...