Perfect for: - Bachelor of Nursing students - Diploma of Nursing students An essential resource to prepare nursing students for their clinical placements and gain the most from their experiences. With a focus on expectations and how to think, act, feel and communicate within complex clinical environments, Clinical Placement: An essential guide for nursing students, 3rd Edition provides tips for maximising learning opportunities and practical strategies for dealing with difficult and challenging situations. Evolve Resources: The Clinical Placement, 3rd Edition is supported by an engaging series of video interviews with nurses from a diverse range of clinical practice areas. Each nurse shares insights, advice, highlights challenges and opportunities, and assists with tips for clinical placement. - Evolve resources include: o 12 video interviews with nurses from a range of clinical practice areas o 'Need to know' quick tips o 'Challenges you may encounter' - Other key features within the chapters include: Something to Think About, Student Experience case studies and Coaching Tips. - • Greater emphasis on cultural sensitivity, simulation as preparation for practice, patient safety, inter-professional communication and professional portfolio development - • Coaching Tips – advice on common issues - • Learning Activites – encourages students to relate theory to their own practice.

- New student perspectives and insights woven throughout chapters - New video with senior/graduate students providing practical tips for commencing students to assist with placement preparation - Increased focus on self-care, dealing with stress and burnout, and how to navigate high-risk situations - Additional strategies to help you learn more effectively while on placement

Are you unsure about your medical nursing placement? Do you need guidance on what to prepare to get the most out of your practice learning? Will you have the range of clinical skills to care for individual patients? What learning opportunities will there be to meet your competencies? How can you maximise your learning during this placement? This book will help you with all these concerns. It will advise you on what to expect from the placement, what you can learn, how to link theory and practice, and how to make the most of your learning opportunities and meet your competencies. Placement Learning in Medical Nursing covers the following areas: - Takes a logical, step-by-step approach to preparing for learning on a medical nursing placement - Provides the principles of care, treatment and management of an individual, linking university-learned theory to clinical practice - Gives helpful evidence-based practice examples and resources to support placement learning - Identifies clinical skills that underpin care of an individual - Highlights potential learning opportunities and experiences available on a medical nursing placement - Explains how to develop your clinical portfolio by completing specific exercises and activities - Maps all activities and exercises to the NMC competencies - Advises on approaches to a range of situations that may arise as a student nurse - Adopts a case-study/patient pathway approach to consolidating learning, from pre-diagnosis, through a range of treatment options to discharge. Series features: - A unique guide to getting the most from clinical placements - How to prepare for your placement - What you can expect to learn during a placement - Clear links to, and examples of, achieving NMC competencies - Guidance on what to use as evidence for your portfolio - Case studies that link theory with practice - How to consolidate your experience and learn from the placement - Tips, activities, further reading suggestions and useful websites.

Clinical Placement for the Diploma of Nursing is an exciting new resource that facilitates easier delivery of learning for HLT54115. A practical manual, it incorporates both knowledge evidence and performance evidence supported by learning material. Written to the training package, all learning objectives and clinical skills are covered, and activities, assessments and materials you need are provided for each unit. Educators and clinical facilitators now have transparency for mapping, course delivery and streamlined placement. Textbook layout suits course progression and clinical placement blocks as the order of coverage follows block delivery. Opening vignettes and real-life case studies and tips from nurses and students in clinical settings gives context to the theory, and assist the student before placement to identify key knowledge elements, which are applied to a practical setting. Cross referencing is included, and Clinical Placement for Diploma of Nursing can be value-packed with Tollefson's Essential Clinical Skills and Clarke/Gray's Foundations of Nursing to create a complete reference package for trainees.

- NEW author team, Tracy Levett-Jones and Kerry Reid-Searl - NEW chapter 6 featuring: - Reflection questions aligned to the 12 'Insights from experts' videos on evolve - 'Need to know quick tips' and 'Challenges you may encounter' for each clinical area - NEW introductory video from Tracy Levett-Jones discussing the challenges of clinical placement and the learning opportunity it provides.

The Student's Companion to Physiotherapy is a comprehensive guide to help ease the stresses and strains of studying physiotherapy. It puts a lighter spin on a very challenging time but is very informative, identifying the vital facts in anatomy and physiology; neurological physiotherapy; electrotherapy; respiratory physiotherapy; musculoskeletal physiotherapy; pharmacology; bio-psychosocial approach; paediatrics; portfolio development; and methods of work/assessment. The content here is orchestrated by students wanting to share their knowledge with fellow students and this book will be a trusty companion for all budding physiotherapists. - Offers students unique learning and study skills needed for physiotherapy - Specifies useful ways to study and offers advice on portfolio development and communication as a clinician - Anecdotes, "top tips" boxes and cartoons - Handy hints on portfolio development, research and job applications

A new textbook on the practical use of dental materials suitable for undergraduate dental students and qualified dental practitioners taking post-graduate exams in dental materials, restorative dentistry, operative techniques, advanced conservative dentistry, endodontics, removable prosthodontics and implantology. - Highly practical and evidenced-based throughout – closing the gap between theory and practice to give readers confidence in selecting and preparing the right material for the patient and circumstance - Amply illustrated in full colour with over 1000 photographs, artworks and tables to clearly demonstrate both materials and techniques - Helps readers appreciate the important relationship between clinical manipulation and the practical use of dental materials - Describes how to properly select a given material for any situation, how to use materials to best effect and when and how not to use them - 'Good practice' and 'Warning' boxes help readers recall important information - Uniquely written by a practising dentist with academic experience and an academic in biomaterials with extensive clinical experience - Self-assessment questions with full answers helps readers consolidate learning and prepare for exams - Designed to improve clinical success and improve patient outcomes - Perfect for all undergraduate and postgraduate students studying dental material science and/or restorative dentistry