Clinical Skills for Nursing Practice

This comprehensive text introduces the core clinical skills and competencies a newly-qualified nurse is required to have for professional practice. It is divided into five sections looking at: Care and Compassion and Communication; Essential Skills; Organisational Aspects of Care; Safety and Protection; and Nutrition and Fluid Balance. Designed to allow readers to develop and enhance their clinical skills with one key textbook, each chapter contains learning outcomes, recommendations for practice, case studies, activities, 'clinical significance' highlights and step-by-step guides to important procedures.