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Vital Notes for Nurses
By: Hilary Lloyd , Helen HancockeBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
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Vital Notes for Nurses: Principles of Care is an essential guide for nursing students and newly qualified nurses. It provides a concise introduction to the essential principles of nursing care. It encourages nurses to examine the principles and evidence underlying nursing practice and equips them with a thorough understanding of the complexities of patient care in different environments of care.
Principles of Care explores concepts of health and illness, conceptual frameworks for practice, principles of health care delivery, and professional standards. Key themes include assessment and planning, implementation and evaluation, patient education and health promotion, decision making and risk management, benchmarking, clinical effectiveness and practice development.
* Examines assessment, planning and evaluation of care
* Covers risk management and prioritisation of care
* Addresses the use of NICE guidance and National service frameworks
* Explores clinical effectiveness, practice development and quality assurance
* Includes learning objectives, scenarios and case studies
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| Title of eBook: Vital Notes for Nurses | |
| Release Date: 11-30-2011 | |
| Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell |
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Vital Notes for Nurses
Chapter One
Concepts of health
Learning objectives
Identify models of health and illness, how these have developed over time and how they impact on care delivery.
Understand the concepts of health and illness and how and why personal definitions of these differ.
Understand how personal definitions of health and illness influence health-related behaviours.
Understand the implications of individual definitions of health and illness for assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care.
Introduction
This chapter will introduce the concepts of health and illness and their implications for the provision of nursing care. This will include a discussion of how health and illness have been viewed historically in health care, and how they are viewed today. Models of health and illness, which help to explain differences in peoples' explanations and behaviour about health and illness, will also be explained and discussed.
Health and illness
Health and illness are central to nursing practice. As Virginia Henderson stated in 1966:
The function of the nurse is to assist an individual sick or well in those activities contributing to health, or its recovery, or to a peaceful death that the individual would perform unaided, if the person had the necessary strength, will, or knowledge, and to do this in such a way as to help the person to independence as rapidly as possible (Henderson, 1966, p. 15).
From this view, nurses are concerned with the maintenance, improvement and/or support o
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