This accessible textbook provides an understandable and interactive introduction to research and evidence-based practice in health and social care. It is aimed at students in Further Education, on Foundations Degree courses and in the first year of a diploma or undergraduate programme in higher education. The book assumes no prior knowledge of health and social care research on the part of the reader and uses straightforward language, supported by illustrative graphs and figures, to describe the research process and the ways in which evidence is used to change and develop care. Content is structured in a logical fashion. The text begins by defining key terms, then takes the reader along a pathway from the creation of initial research questions or objectives, through the design and undertaking of a research project, the adoption of findings into practice and the ongoing audit and evaluation of new practice to ensure its continued effectiveness. Exercises and case studies support student learning and the author’s personal reflections on the research process make this a lively and engaging text. The Health and Social Care series This series of textbooks is aimed at students on Health and Social Care Foundation Degree programmes in FE and HE institutions. However, the books also provide short introductions to key topics for Common Foundation Programme modules and will be suitable for first-year undergraduate courses in a variety of Health and Social Care subject areas. Books in the series will also be useful for those returning to practice and for overseas nursing students. The series includes three types of textbook: • Knowledge and Skills books; • Theory and Practice books; • Specialist books that cover specific professions, topics and issues. All titles in the series will address the common elements articulated in relevant sector skill frameworks, for example, Skills for Care, Skills for Health, the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework.

Understanding Research and Evidence-based Practice (Health and Social Care: Knowledge and Skills)

Medical Books

Lindsay, Bruce

Nursing

Reflect Press

Effective Management in Long-term Care Organisations is a unique combination of up-to-date management theory and practice designed for students and new care managers in nursing homes, residential homes and the variety of care settings in the community. This accessible and interactive text covers relevant theory and practice. It is written by people with a wide experience as managers and educators in the social care sector. Focusing on key themes including Managing People, Managing the Workplace and Managing Change, the book includes: • the examination of roles; • the vital topics of decision making and leadership; • team building and how groups work. Other key topics explored include appraisal, quality and information management, skill mix, financial management, negotiation and conflict, recruitment and selection, workforce planning and strategic planning, all in relation to relevant legislation. Case studies are used for illuminating principles and exercises and activities will enable the reader to work through all the sections using a step-by-step process that ensures skills and principles of one subject are understood before moving onto the next.

Effective Management in Long-term Care Organisations: A Textbook for Students and New Care Managers

Business & Money

Scott, Janet

Gill, Anne

Crowhurst, Keith

Management & Leadership

Clinical Skills for Student Nurses is a comprehensive learning resource for student nurses in the UK. This textbook is based on the NMC Essential Skills Clusters and covers all the key clinical skills required for effective and efficient practice in UK healthcare. The book maps the development of the student nurse in relation to clinical skill acquisition, focusing not only on the dexterity aspects, but also on the underpinning theory and the attitudinal aspects of skill delivery. Using a scenario-based approach, this book relates skills to ‘real’ people and situations. In addition to providing instruction on how to perform clinical skills, it will also ask the students to reflect and consider how these skills and related principles may be transferred to other situations and contexts. Above all, the authors are offering students a friendly, interactive and visual approach to skills acquisition. Written by an experienced team of clinical skills educators at the University of Central Lancashire, Clinical Skills provides students and lecturers with: • up-to-date theory and evidence-based practice, • scenarios and case studies, • activities to encourage reflection, • exercises for self-assessment and skills practice, • a glossary, references and further reading.

Clinical Skills for Student Nurses: Theory, Practice and Reflection

Richardson, Robin

Values are a fundamental component of the provision, practice and delivery of health and social care. The development of personal and professional values is influenced by a number of factors and the values held by practitioners and their professional groups can lead to competing demands and duties that make decision-making complex. In this book, students will be encouraged to critically analyse their personal value base and those underpinning health and social care work. They will explore values in general and reflect on how these are articulated in Codes of Practice. The text will use activities and case studies to enable the reader to reflect on the relevance of values in care practice and to apply theory in their practice. The Health and Social Care Series This series of textbooks is aimed at students on Health and Social Care Foundation Degree programmes in FE and HE institutions. However, the books also provide short introductions to key topics for Common Foundation Programme modules and will be suitable for first-year undergraduate courses in a variety of Health and Social Care subject areas. Books in the series will also be useful for those returning to practice and for overseas nursing students. The series includes three types of textbook: Knowledge and Skills books; Theory and Practice books; Specialist books that cover specific professions, topics and issues. All titles in the series will address the common elements articulated in relevant sector skill frameworks, for example, Skills for Care, Skills for Health, the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework.

Values for Care Practice (Health and Social Care: Theory and Practice)

Cuthbert, Sue

Quallington, Jan

Good communication and interpersonal skills are essential to the practice of effective health and social care. In communicating with others, the practitioner needs to be able to use a variety of strategies to ensure professional practice, meet health and social care needs and facilitate positive working relationships. This book provides the student with the opportunity to explore the theory that underpins communication studies and provides a unique opportunity for the reader to self-assess and improve their communication and interpersonal skills.

Communication and Interpersonal Skills (Health and Social Care: Knowledge and Skills)

Donnelly, Elaine

Neville, Lindsey

This valuable textbook will help nurses and other health care students achieve confidence and proficiency in performing a variety of calculations, both in the clinical environment and in written tests. It discusses the increasing demands placed upon the numeracy skills of nurses and considers potential sources of calculation errors.The basics of the decimal system and the four methods of performing calculations are reviewed. Formulae for calculating drug dosages are explored and the use of numeracy in other areas of clinical practice is examined. The book contains a considerable number of ‘self-tests’ to provide students with feedback on their learning and answers to these activities are provided at the back of the book. All basic calculations will be presented in a health care context with real-world examples from a wide range of practice settings including nursing, midwifery, child health, etc.Numeracy, Clinical Calculations and Basic Statistics is designed specifically for undergraduate pre-registration nursing and midwifery students. It is also suitable for students on Foundation Degree courses, Access courses, Return to Practice programmes and NVQ courses.

Numeracy, Clinical Calculations and Basic Statistics: A Textbook for Health Care Students

Davison, Neil

increasing and most patients and health care professionals will encounter the Diagnostic or Medical Imaging department of the hospital as matter of course. Professional barriers are being broken down in the modern NHS and, as new ways of working are used to deliver high quality patient-focussed care, professions other than doctors are often involved in requesting medical imaging tests and receiving test results.This book provides an introductory overview of a wide range of commonly encountered medical imaging tests including radiation-based techniques such as plain film radiography, computed tomography and nuclear medicine, and non-ionising imaging techniques such as medical ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging. Each chapter has an initial section explaining ‘how the technique works’ and a second section describing ‘what the technique is used for’. Learning is supported with case studies, activities, explanations of technical procedures and terminology, diagrams and photographs.This book will appeal to educational institutions delivering training and education to student nurses, students training for roles in the allied health care professions and for any health care practitioner who needs a basic introduction to diagnostic imaging. As an introductory text, the book is also suitable for students in further education establishments preparing for careers in health care.

Fundamentals of Diagnostic Imaging: An Introduction for Nurses and Allied Health Care Professionals

Dixon, Anne-Marie

Although care and the process of caring has been a fundamental part of nursing theories and paradigms for many years, there are an increasing number of anecdotal and media stories as well as academic debates that question the extent to which caring is satisfactorily carried out. Fundamentals of Nursing Care is a foundation level pre-registration text that aims to actively address this issue as it focuses on the fundamental principles of caring. The book covers topics such as: • interpersonal issues, self and the therapeutic relationship; • lay–professional conflicts; • user articulation and the caring process; • dignity and care; • cultural competence and the process of care.
The book is set out as a workbook, using narratives that are related to the NMC Essential Skills Clusters. Case studies are used to illustrate key points, and the book has been carefully designed to allow for critical incident analysis, enquiry-based and problem-based learning and reflection. Questions and activities encourage students to deconstruct practice and examine how to further develop competencies. There are also suggestions for additional reading throughout the book in order to support independent learning and enquiry. The book can therefore be used as an independent study tool or as a core text within a particular module.
Fundamentals of Nursing Care is aimed primarily at nurses on the Common Foundation Programme, although it may also be suitable for other health and social care professionals on Foundation Degree programmes. The book’s jargon-free and easy-to-follow approach means that it is relevant for a wide audience of pre-registration practitioners working in a range of institutional and non-institutional settings (hospitals, hospices, nursing and residential homes, and in community settings).

Fundamentals of Nursing Care: A Textbook for Students of Nursing and Healthcare

Hayes, Sally

LLewellyn, Anne

For students on professional Health and Social Care courses there is a requirement that they can write coherently and concisely, use information efficiently and effectively and confidently present their viewpoints and recommendations about practice to their colleagues. Essential Study Skills for Health and Social Care enables the undergraduate student to develop personal, professional and educational skills so that they can have confidence in their ability to perform both academically and in practice. This comprehensive resource covers a wide range of topics including: IT skills; Exam techniques, report and essay writing; Presentations and public speaking; Learning in groups and teams; Profiles and portfolios; Research skills; Critical thinking, analysis and reflection; CVs and interview techniques. Student learning is supported by student scenarios, examples, activities, end-of-chapter quizzes, references and further reading. This book is an essential text for students who are undertaking courses at certificate, Foundation Degree, diploma and degree level. The editors and authors have paid particular attention to the essential study skills requirements within those levels as outlined in the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) guidelines. This book provides study and skills support for all students in the health and social care professions including nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, radiologists, psychologists, healthcare support workers, foundation degree students, childcare students, youth workers, probation workers and sports sciences students.

Essential Study Skills for Health and Social Care (Health and Social Care. Knowledge and Skills)

Lloyd, Marjorie

Murphy, Peggy

Palliative Care: Learning in Practice is an interactive textbook based on models of open learning, action learning, work-based learning, critical companionship and reflective practice. It has been designed to be used as a flexible learning resource in a variety of situations with local support from colleagues, professional and practice development staff, managers and educators. The chapters have been written in a straightforward, open learning style and include activities, examples, case studies, useful websites, recommended sources of information and references. The text is designed to enable the reader to gain, improve and update their knowledge and skills, and to take on more responsibility for their own learning and development.
This book covers the following topics: • Essential concepts in palliative care • Assessment • Anxiety and depression • Breathlessness • Fatigue • Pain • Quality improvement
Palliative Care is suitable for qualified nurses in any setting that has palliative care patients. This will include registered nurses in hospitals, care homes, hospices and working in the community. The resource is also suitable for care assistants, members of multidisciplinary and multiprofessional teams and pre- and post-registration students taking modules on palliative care. This textbook has been produced in association with the RCN Palliative Nursing Forum.

Palliative Care: Learning in Practice

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