Principles of Caring: A Practical Approach,9780748794096

Principles of Caring: A Practical Approach

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ISBN13: 9780748794096
ISBN10: 0748794093
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-01-01
Publisher(s): Nelson Thornes
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Summary

Offers students a current guide in applying nursing theory to clinical practice, designed to provoke reflective thinking, self evaluation and self-directed study. Embraces the changes that have taken place in both nursing and health care, over recent years, and looks at the implications to the way in which care is delivered.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
v
Preface vii
Key features of the book ix
A critical approach to care in nursing
1(19)
Receiving care
20(16)
Providing care
36(15)
Secondary care
51(21)
Primary care
72(19)
Culture and care
91(17)
The Internet and care
108(15)
Care in the multidisciplinary team
123(20)
Lynne Wigens
Becoming an expert caregiver
143(25)
Lynne Wigens
Health policies and care
168(24)
Jayne Holmes
The future for care
192(8)
Appendix 1 Summary of nursing theories 200(8)
Appendix 2 Rapid recap -- answers 208(6)
Index 214

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