Introduction to Nursing for First Year Students - Hardcover

by Calvin Moorley (Editor)

The perfect handbook for first year nursing students!

Whether you are just starting your course, preparing for your first placement, writing an assignment, or revising for your end-of-year exams, this book will support you through it all, with interactive activities, real-life scenarios and interesting case studies. Covering all the skills, theory and knowledge that you will need to know in order to succeed, this book is packed full of information relating to the core modules taught in the first year of your nursing degree, including:

• Person centred care, effective communication and ethical values
• Research, academic and study skills
• Core clinical skills for effective practice
• Anatomy and Physiology
• Pharmacology and medicines management

Written specifically for first year Nursing Students in all specialisms and students on the first year of their Nursing Associate or Nursing Apprenticeship programmes.

Author Biography

Dr Calvin Moorley is a Senior Lecturer, in the Adult Nursing Department at London South Bank University, with a background in public health and diversity in care. He was awarded a PhD for a thesis entitled Life After Stroke: Personal, Social and Cultural Factors-An Inner City Afro-Caribbean Experience. His research focuses on the interplay of gender, culture ethnicity and health. He was awarded the Mary Seacole Prize for Leadership in Nursing 2013/14 by the Royal College of Nursing. Dr Moorley delivers education across the adult undergraduate BSc pre-registration nursing programme. He undertakes research in the areas of minority and cultural health. Alongside his academic position he continues to practice in intensive care nursing.