Returning to nursing : a guide for nurses and health visitors
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Returning to nursing : a guide for nurses and health visitors
Macmillan, 1989
Available at 7 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is aimed at all qualified nurses and health visitors hoping to return to practice after a career break and attempts to provide a re-introduction and update on many of the issues already encountered by experienced nurses, and an introduction to new concepts and develoments in line with current recommendations and guidelines on preparation for re-entry. The book is very much a general introduction aimed at providing nurses of all specialities with practical background information. There are also selective annotated bibliographies on topics ranging from individualized care planning to drug administration, safe handling skills, wounds management, the nurse's role in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and many other more specialized skills.
Table of Contents
- Deciding to return - bridging the gap, reviewing career goals, nursing in the market place, expanding opportunities in the NHS, the independent sector and abroad
- building on professional experience - reassessing your skills, identifying your learning needs, acknowledging your limitations, self help strategies, job expectations and rewards, clinical grading and the returner, practical issues at home and work, how confident are you?
- the back to nursing movement and prospective employers - preparing for your return, the law and re-entry programmes, UKCC guidelines of good practice, periodic fees and re-licensing explained, alternative routes of re-entry, return to practice programmes, course content and outcomes, tailoring a course to meet your needs, finding the right job
- the NHS and its mid-life crisis - nursing into the 1990s, the current statutory framework, project 2000
- returning to learning - the learning environment and process, continuing your professional education
- changes in nursing practice - competencies and the nursing practitioner, new technologies in nursing, management and hierarchy, practical handling skill, safe drug administration, infection control issues, assessing and controlling pain, care of the dying, emergency cardiopulmonary resuscitation skills
- postscript. Appendices: the UKCC code of professional conduct for the nurse, midwife and health visitor
- national nursing journals
- careers information addresses.
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