Product Description

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 uses humour, case studies, hints, tips, and insights to inspire and encourage you to complete your course and become a nurse. Covering a wide range of topics it will help you to:

Write assignments

Avoid plagiarism

Make the most of clinical placements

Cope with stress

Understand medical terminology and nursing jargon

Deal with legal and ethical issues

Make drug dosage calculations and administer medication

Create a portfolio

Reflect on your practice

Understand nursing models, theories and philosophies

It also contains copies of essential Nursing and Midwifery Council publications such as the Code of Professional Conduct, Guidelines for the Administration of Medication and Guidelines for Records and Record Keeping, and explains their relevance to you as a nursing student. 

This unique book will be useful to those of any age considering nursing as a career, with or without previous practical experience in health care. It will help you understand exactly what your tutors and mentors expect from you and help you plan for and cope with the inevitable stress and frustration. The Student Nurse Handbook will be an essential companion throughout your course.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5381 in Books
• Published on: 2004-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Synopsis
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 uses humour, case studies, hints, tips, and insights to inspire and encourage you to complete your course and become a nurse. Covering a wide range of topics it will help you to: write assignments, avoid plagiarism, make the most of clinical placements, cope with stress, understand medical terminology, and nursing jargon, deal with legal and ethical issues, make drug dosage calculations and administer medication, create a portfolio, reflect on your practice, and understand nursing models, theories and philosophies.It also contains copies of essential Nursing and Midwifery Council publications such as the "Code of Professional Conduct", "Guidelines for the Administration of Medication" and "Guidelines for Records and Record Keeping", and explains their relevance to you as a nursing student. This unique book will be useful to those of any age considering nursing as a career, with or without previous practical experience in health care.

It will help you understand exactly what your tutors and mentors expect from you and help you plan for and cope with the inevitable stress and frustration. "The Student Nurse Handbook" will be an essential companion throughout your course.

From the Author
This book is intended to be a friend, companion and reliable resource for any nursing student in the UK. I have written this book as a mentor to a student nurse, in a clear, honest and direct manner. It gives information on topics you will need for the academic course such as nursing models, medication administration and reflective practice, how to survive (and thrive) in clinical placements, essential government publications you need to understand for your practice, and practical hints and tips to help you get the most out of your nurse education. This book would be very useful for any nursing student in the UK, any individual considering nursing as a career, or any individual mentoring or supporting student nurses.

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Customer Reviews

a must-have!
This books is definitely a must-have for those who are about to, or have just started their nurse training.

I unfortunately didn't get mine until i was already half way through the course, and although it has still been handy to dip into at times, i think it would have been much more beneficial to myself if i had bought it sooner.

So if you are about to become a student nurse, or are in your 1st year i would highly recommend it- it is worth every penny :)

Excellent !
Although I am no novice to Health care, as I have worked in the industry as a HCA for some time. However, I will be commencing Nurse training this year.

I was sceptical at first about purchasing this book and thought that I would not need it. Hey, I was wrong and the book has confirmed to me that you can never have too much knowledge.

This wonderful book has given me confidence and has also taught me never to become too complacent, even at the best of times.

I would recommend this book to anyone anticipating on becoming a Nurse.

Helps in all sorts of ways
I have found this book not only to be invaluable in my first year but also funny in parts. The section on reflective learning really helped me understand the reflective models and it was referenced in my assignent. It's a great handbook to keep in you uni bag!!