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What is Nursing? Exploring Theory and Practice
Exploring Theory and Practice

Third Edition


June 2013 | 224 pages | Learning Matters

This book helps new nursing students, and those applying to nursing programmes, understand what being a nurse is all about. It explores the essential issues, processes and theories of nursing practice, and is therefore an ideal introductory text as you start your nursing programme, or as pre-course reading.

This revised edition includes a new first chapter on being a nursing student, with insights from students themselves, and explains what will be expected of you in the new all-degree programmes. Interviews with real nurses in each of the fields of practice gives you an important view into the real world of nursing.

  • The revised third edition includes a new chapter on being a nursing student, with student tips and stories
  • Updated with, and linked to, the new NMC Standards and Essential Skills Clusters for degree-level education
  • Activities, case studies and scenarios helps you apply theory to practice
  • Particularly suitable for first-year students and those applying to pre-registration programmes

This book is part of the Transforming Nursing Practice Series, the first series of books designed to help students meet the requirements of the NMC Standards and Essential Skills Clusters for the new degree programmes.


Foreword

 
About the Authors

 
Contributors

 
Acknowledgements

 
 
Introduction
 
Defining Contemporary UK Nursing
 
Being a Student Nurse
 
The Professional Nurse: Image and Values in Nursing
 
Theory and Practice: Understanding the Nature of Nursing as a Caring Activity
 
Doing Nursing
 
Nursing as a Global Activity
 
Becoming a Registered Nurse
 
Exploring the World of Nursing by Those Working in It
References

 
Index

 

An excellent third edition of this very useful book.

Mrs Mandy Brimble
Children and Young Peoples Nursing, Cardiff University
August 29, 2013

would be useful for an individual considering nursing or at the beginning of the programme

Mrs Victoria Ridgway
PRE Registration Nursing, Chester University
August 27, 2013

An excellent book for the prospective & current nursing student as it focusses on all the relevant issues in the nursing programme. Good links to NMC standards & Essential Skills clusters providing context for learning. Welcome addition of the student experience in the latest edition.

Mr Ian Hamilton
Health , Community & Education Studies, Northumbria University
August 9, 2013

This is a fantastic book for final year nursing students and one that i will be recommending to my students

Mr Nick White
Nursing and Midwifery, Sheffield Hallam University
July 25, 2013

Excellent, clear and concise. Very useful to demonstrate links to current learning at FE level and nursing requirements and future learning.

Dr Patricia Slator
Health and Wellbeing, Brooklands College
July 12, 2013

This is a clearly written text and all prospective and lst year nursing students will find useful

Ms Gerri Capper
Access to Higher Education, Warrington Collegiate Institute
July 2, 2013

Useful background text for first year module where we cover defining nursing and images of nursing

Mr Pam Sharp
Health , Oxford Brookes University
July 2, 2013

essential read for the students to support academic writing particularly around care planning and models / theories and how theory and practice are integrated

Mr Hywel Thomas
College of Human and Health science, Swansea University
July 1, 2013

Useful book: addition to the year 1 reading list for pre qualification nursing students in year 1 professional module

Ms Mary Crawford
The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Mid, King's College London
June 28, 2013

Good for first year students

Mrs Chris O'Grady
Nursing Department, Glyndwr University
June 25, 2013

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