Care Planning: A guide for nurses - Softcover

Barrett, David; Wilson, Benita; Woollands, Andrea

 
9780273746119: Care Planning: A guide for nurses

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Why is care planning important? How can you use care planning effectively in your own practice?

Being able to plan the care of patients is one of most important aspects of a nurse’s role. Using an interactive approach, this book explores the reasons why care planning is so important and explains the theory behind the practice, providing a step-by-step guide to assessing patients, diagnosing problems, planning goals and interventions, and evaluating progress.

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Why is care planning important? How can you use care planning effectively in your own practice?

Being able to plan the care of patients is one of most important aspects of a nurse’s role. Using an interactive approach, this book explores the reasons why care planning is so important and explains the theory behind the practice, providing a step-by-step guide to assessing patients, diagnosing problems, planning goals and interventions, and evaluating progress.

Key Features:

  • Covers theory and practice: legal and professional issues, nursing models, different tools in practice that help you assess patients, and planning and providing effective care.
  • Uses three patient scenarios throughout the second part of the book, with completed care plans for each.
  • Chapters contain research summaries, short activities to test your knowledge and guidance on how to reflect on your own practice.

New for this edition:

  • Fully updated to take account of the 2010 NMC standards for nurse education and the latest evidence and research.
  • Enhanced and enlarged discussion of the Systematic Nursing Diagnosis and Recheck stages of ASPIRE.
  • Includes a new framework for the Evaluation stage of ASPIRE.

Care Planning: A Guide for Nurses is designed to support nursing students and registered practitioners early in their careers.

David Barrett, Benita Wilson and Andrea Woollands are Nurse Lecturers at the University of Hull.

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