Decision-making is a key skill for today's nurses. Nursing: Decision-Making Skills for Practice is an essential guide for student nurses that prepares them to make effective decisions on the ward and in the community.
This new title in the Prepare for Practice series details the fundamental knowledge and skills needed to make good decisions across a variety of nursing areas: from involving patients in decision making, to using the best evidence in care planning. Case studies, activities, and exercises ensure that theories of decision-making are brought into real-world nursing situations .
Evidence-based and with links to core NMC competencies throughout, this textbook will help undergraduate and qualified nurses to make confident decisions and boost their academic, personal, and professional development.
Part 1: Decision making: theory and practice 1: Karen Holland and Debbie Roberts: Principles of decision making 2: Debbie Roberts: Making decisions as a student: decision-making opportunities 3: Thérèse Leufer and Joanne Cleary-Holdforth: Using evidence for decision making 4: Debbie Roberts and Karen Holland: Learning from decision making Part 2: Decision making and achieving competence 5: Ruth Chadwick: Professional values 6: Jenni Templeman and June Keeling: Communication, interpersonal skills, and decision making 7: Dawn Gawthorpe: Nursing practice and decision making 8: Mike Lappin: Leadership, management, team working, and decision making Part 3: Decision making in specific fields of practice 9: Tony Warne and Gareth Holland: Mental health nursing and decision making 10: Aatefa Lunat and Denise Major: Decision making in children's and young people's nursing 11: Deborah Atkinson and Jane McGrath: Decision making in adult nursing 12: Sue Hart and Eva Scarlett: Decision making in learning disability nursing Part 4: Decision making in professional practice 13: Sarah Ratcliffe and Joyce Smith: Decision making for transition to registration and preceptorship
Karen Holland is Series Editor of the Prepare for Practice series. She has extensive experience in nurse education and practice and has co-authored numerous nursing textbooks. Karen is also Editor of the journal Nurse Education in Practice (Elsevier). She has a commitment to learning and teaching at all levels and is leading an evidence -based approach to education development in Salford School of Nursing and Midwifery. Debbie Roberts is is an experienced nurse lecturer who teaches both pre-registration students and qualified nurses, she has written several peer reviewed papers and chapters in nursing text books relating to teaching and learning in nursing. She gained her Doctorate (PhD) in the field of nursing education, focusing on peer learning in practice.
Reviews for Nursing: Decision-Making Skills for Practice
A mixture of case studies, activities, and exercises ensure that theories of decision-making are brought into real-world nursing situations, ensuring linking theory to practice. The case studies are particularly helpful as they detail common scenarios that student nurses and newly qualified nurse encounter in practice. . . I would recommend this book to student nurses who want to develop their decision making skills. * Phil Jevon RN BSc (Hons) PGCE, medical education skills manager; Nursing Times *