Patient and Carer Participation in Nursing

Future healthcare services are changing to give patients more rights over their own health care. The NMC require that nurses work in partnership with those in their care. This book provides a timely guide to enabling patient and carer participation in nursing care. It challenges the reader to see the person in the patient and explores the nature of the nurse-patient relationship. It gives practical advice on how students can promote participation on placements and in practice. The book also offers an insight into the realities of being a carer, and discusses how quality of patient experiences can be assessed.

Author:
Audrey Reed, University of Leeds
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Series: Transforming Nursing Practice

Publication Date: 11/04/2011

No. of Pages: 168

Paperback ISBN 9780857253071 £16.00   Pre-order

Key features:

  • Linked to the new NMC Standards and Essential Skills Clusters for degree-level education.
  • Applies evidence-based theory to real practice through case studies and scenarios.
  • Plenty of activities help build critical thinking and independent learning skills.
  • A key text for all fields of practice pre-registration nursing students.