Product Description

Planning the care of patients is one of most important aspects of a nurse’s role. Adopting an interactive approach, this book explores the theory of care planning and discusses how this relates to clinical nursing practice. Three patient scenarios are referred to throughout the second part of the book, with completed care plans included for reference purposes.  Each chapter contains short activities to test your knowledge, and opportunities to reflect on your own practice.  The book also provides a link between classic nursing theories and modern approaches to care planning.

‘Care Planning: A Guide for Nurses’ has been designed to support nursing students and registered practitioners early in their careers, and is recommended as a core text for pre-registration courses.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25602 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-19
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 215 pages

From the Back Cover

Barrett, Wilson and Woollands

Care Planning: A Guide for Nurses

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A step-by-step guide to assessing patients, diagnosing problems, planning goals and interventions, and evaluating progress.

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 part of a nurse’s role. This book covers both the theory of care planning - the legal and professional issues, nursing models, and the different tools in practice that help you assess patients – and the practice - planning and providing effective care.

Using an interactive approach, the book explores the reasons why care planning is so important, and explains the theory behind the practice.

Three patient scenarios are referred to throughout the second part of the book, with completed care plans for them which you can refer to throughout

Chapters contain research summaries, short activities to test your knowledge and guidance on how to reflect on your own practice.

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

Customer Reviews

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