Summary:
This is the third edition of the highly successful textbook, Developing Practical Nursing Skills, which has been revised specifically for nursing and health care students working with adult patients, offering a more comprehensive guide that will last throughout initial training and beyond.

Maintaining the practical and easy-to-use style of the previous edition, the text now focuses on adults with physical health needs across a range of settings. Each chapter includes scenarios from adult physical health, mental health and learning disability care settings, which are followed by reflective activities and learning outcomes to help the reader relate theory to practice.

This new edition includes additional skills, and has been fully updated with new research and health policies, including the Nursing and Midwifery Council Essential Skills Clusters. An accompanying website supports the text with complementary information, images, activities and self-assessment questions. 

This interactive aid to learning is essential reading for all pre-registration nurses on the common foundation programme and adult, mental health and learning disability branches, as well as health care assistants studying NVQ 2/3 in Care, and students on assistant healthcare practitioner foundation degrees. It is also a useful reference for qualified nurses and all those involved in the teaching of practical nursing skills.

The accompanying website is http://www.hodderplus.com/adultnursingskills

• Based on the NMC Essential Skills Clusters

• Emphasises a caring approach and the caregiver’s knowledge and attitude underpinning the practical component of skills

• Reader friendly and interactive approach with activities incorporated throughout
• Sound evidence base, with emphasis on theory-practice link
• An accompanying website will provide additional images, self assessment questions and further resources: http://www.hodderplus.com/adultnursingskills

Table of Contents:
1. Practical nursing skills: a caring approach
2. The nurse’s approach: self awareness and communication
3. Preventing cross-infection
4. Measuring vital signs
5. Administering medicines
6. Caring for people with impaired mobility
7. Applying principles of wound care
8. Meeting hygiene needs
9. Meeting elimination needs
10. Maintaining nutrition and fluid balance
11. Assessing physical health and responding to sudden deterioration
12. Managing pain and promoting comfort

About the Author(s):
Lesley Baillie PhD MSc BA(Hons) RGN RNT, Principal Lecturer (Clinical Skills Development), London South Bank University, London, UK

Contributors:
Janine Ashton Lesley Baillie Dee Burrows Veronica Corben Trisha Folan Rachel Leaver Sue Maddex Lesley Marsh Nicola Neale Glynis Pellatt Jennifer Randall Jo Sale Tracey Valler-Jones

Readership:
Pre-registration nursing students; Health care assistants studying NVQ 2/3 in Care; Students on a range of assistant practitioner healthcare programmes; All those involved in the teaching of practical

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