Chapter contents

PART I - NURSING IN CONTEXT

• 1: Managing Nursing Care
• 2: Promoting Health
• 3: The Politics of Health

PART II - NURSING INTERVENTIONS

• 4: Infection Control and Administration of Medications
• 5: Eating and Drinking
• 6: Elimination
• 7: Respiration and Circulation
• 8: Body Image and Sexuality
• 9: Movement and Mobility
• 10: Dying, Death and Spirituality
• 11: Wound Management

PART III - PROFESSIONAL ISSUES

• 12: Understanding Ourselves
• 13: Reflective Practice
• 14: Social Behaviour and Professional Interactions
• 15: Nursing Practice in an Interprofessional Context
• 16: Challenges to Professional Practice
• 17: Genetics Within an Ethical Framework
• 18: Health Informatics  

Chapter 1 Managing Nursing Care

Stage 1: Assessment
Pain Assessment
Stage 2: Nursing Diagnosis
Stage 3: Planning Nursing Care
Stage 4: Implementation
Managing Nursing Care in the Clinical Environment
Stage 5: Evaluation
Information Technology and Care-planning
Chapter Summary
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Reference

Chapter 2 Promoting Health

Promoting Health
Health Protection
Promoting Health and Preventing Ill-health
The Role of the Nurse as a Health Promoter
Chapter Summary
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Further Reading
References

Chapter 3 The Politics of Health care

The Political Process
Social Policy and nursing Practice
Chapter Summary
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Further Reading
References

Chapter 4 Infection Control and Administration of Medications

Control of Infection
Administration
Chapter Summary
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Further Reading
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Chapter 5 Eating and Drinking

What is a healthy diet?
Macronutrients
Micronutrients
Alcohol
Nutrient intake
Screening and assessing nutritional status
Assisting a client to eat and drink
Nutritional support
Obesity
Chapter summary
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Further reading
References

Chapter 6 Elimination

Faecal elimination
Urinary elimination
Chapter summary
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Further reading
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Chapter 7 Respiration and circulation

Respiration
Circulation
Chapter Summary
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Further Reading
References
Web Page

Chapter 8 Body image and sexuality

What Is Self-image and Normal
Body Image?
What Is Altered Body Image?
Human Sexuality
Gender
Sexual Orientation
Sexuality and Skilled Nursing Care
Chapter Summary
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Further Reading
References

Chapter 9 Movement and Mobility

Mobility and Immobility
Moving and handling
Chapter summary
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Chapter 10 Death, Dying and Spirituality

Awareness of death
Health promotion and dying
The concept of pain and symptom control
Last offices
Bereavement
Spirituality
Chapter summary
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Further reading
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Chapter 11 Wound Management

A Professional Perspective
The healing process
Factors affecting wound healing
Complications of wound healing
The optimum environment for healing
Care-planning in wound management
Chapter summary
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Further reading
References

Chapter 12 Understanding Ourselves

Self-concept
Self-awareness
Self and sources of stress
Factors of stress
Attitudes
Chapter summary
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Chapter 13 Developing skills for reflective practice

What is reflective practice
The reflective practitioner
Skills for beginning reflective practice
Choosing an experience to reflect on
Reflective processes
Using models and frameworks to guide reflective activity
Reflective learning in the practice environment
Recording your reflective work
Chapter summary
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Chapter 14 Social behaviour and Professional interactions

The Political Process
Social Policy and Nursing Practice
Chapter Summary
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Further Reading
References

Chapter 15 Nursing Practice in an interprofessional context

What is interprofessionalism
Move towards interprofessional practice
Teamwork
Working in teams
Responses to team working
Chapter summary
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Chapter 16 Challenges to Professional Practice

Defining professional practice
The responsibilities of professional practice
Philosophies and ideologis
Quality
Clinical governance
Models and frameworks of care
Evidence-based practice
Lifelong learning
Where to next
Chapter summary
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Chapter 17 Genetics knowledge within an ethical framework

Introduction
An ethical framework
The human genome
Genetic inheritance
The impact of genotypes in health care
Chapter summary
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Further reading
References

 

Chapter 18 Health informatics

Introduction
Health informatics and foundations of nursing practice
Data, information and knowledge
A systems-based approach to health care
Health informatics
Health informatics
The management and organisation of care
The wider public and health informatics
Chapter summary
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