ISBN : 9780199641420
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. Principles of decision making
2. Making decisions as a student: decision-making opportunities
3. Using evidence for decision making
4. Learning from decision making
PART 2: DECISION MAKING AND ACHIEVING COMPETENCE
5. Professional values
6. Communication, interpersonal skills, and decision making
7. Nursing practice and decision making
8. Leadership, management, team working, and decision making
PART 3: DECISION MAKING IN SPECIFIC FIELDS OF PRACTICE
9. Mental health nursing and decision making
10. Decision making in children's and young people's nursing
11. Decision making in adult nursing
12. Decision making in learning disability nursing
PART 4: DECISION MAKING IN PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
13. Decision making for transition to registration and preceptorship
