The Student Nurse Handbook

This convenient Handbook will be invaluable to students starting out on a pre-registration nursing course. Covering a broad range of topics, from helping understand what tutors and mentors expect, how to plan work, and coping with stress, it will support undergraduates across all aspects of student life. This book will help students to:

• Write assignments

• Cope with stress

• Make the most of clinical placements

• Reflect on practice

• Understand nursing models, theories and philosophies

• Understand medical terminology and nursing jargon

• Deal with legal and ethical issues.

  Klappentext

  This book is an indispensable guide on how to get into and survive a pre-registration nursing course. With an immensely readable style this book inspires and encourages students to complete their course and become a nurse. Covering a wide range of topics it helps students to

  Zusammenfassung
  Covering a range of topics, from helping understand what tutors and mentors expect, how to plan work, and coping with stress, this title helps to support undergraduates across all aspects of student life.

  Inhalt

  Becoming and being a nurse. Nursing models. Academic work. Clinical placements. Basics of nursing. Tools of the trade. Cracking the code.. Safe and accurate administration of medicines. Reading and understanding research. Reflective practice and portfolios. Legal issues for students.. Final thoughts. Useful books. Appendices