cover image - Alexander's Nursing Practice - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 5th Edition
ISBN: 9780702065385
Copyright: 2019
Publication Date: 11-26-2019
Page Count: 889
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $36.99

Alexander's Nursing Practice - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 5th Edition

by Ian Peate, OBE, FRCN, EN(G) RGN, DipN(Lond), RNT B.Ed (Hons), MA, LLM

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cover image - Alexander's Nursing Practice - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 5th Edition
ISBN: 9780702065385
Copyright: 2019
Publication Date: 11-26-2019
Page Count: 889
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $36.99
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    • Edited by the world-renowned Ian Peate – editor of the British Journal of Nursing – who brings together a new line up of contributors from across the UK and Australia
    • Reflects contemporary issues such as the complexity of acute admissions and the increasing importance of the multidisciplinary approach to patient care
    • Reflects the 2018 NMC Standards of Proficiency for Nurses and the NMC 2018 Code
    • Helps prepare students for ‘prescribing readiness’, with basic principles of pharmacology, evidence-based person-centred approaches to medicines management and an understanding of the regulatory, professional legal and ethical frameworks
    • Recognises the introduction of the Nursing Associate role in England
    • New edition of the UK’s most comprehensive textbook on Adult Nursing!
    • Retains the popular ‘three-part’ structure to ensure comprehensive coverage of the subject area – Common Disorders, Core Nursing Issues and Specific Patient Groups
    • Illustrative A&P and pathophysiology help explain key diseases and disorders
    • ‘Real-life’ Case Studies help contextualise and apply new information
    • Explains relevant tests and investigations and, when needed, the role of the nurse in the context of each of them
    • Helpful learning features include Key Nursing Issues and Reflection and Learning – What Next?
    • Encourages readers to critically examine issues that are related to care provision
    • Useful icons throughout the text directs readers to additional online material
    • Glossary contains over 300 entries to explain new terminology and concepts
    • Appendices include notes on Système International (SI) units and reference ranges for common biochemical and haematological values
    • Perfect for second and third-year undergraduate nursing students, senior Trainee Nursing Associates, those ‘returning to practice’ or needing to review practice and prepare for revalidation
  • Section 1: Care of patients with common disorders

    Section 2: Core nursing issues

    Section 3: Nursing specific patient groups

  • Ian Peate, OBE, FRCN, EN(G) RGN, DipN(Lond), RNT B.Ed (Hons), MA, LLM, Editor in Chief, British Journal of Nursing; Consultant Editor, Journal of Paramedic Practice; Consultant Editor, International Journal for Advancing Practice; Visiting Professor, Northumbria University; Visiting Professor, St Georges University of London and Kingston University London; Professorial Fellow, Roehampton University; Visiting Senior Clinical Fellow, University of Hertfordshire, UK
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