This bestselling handbook is designed to support you throughout your course, encompassing the core knowledge, behaviours and clinical skills needed for confident practice. Covering topics from academic and professional skills to applied bioscience, infection control and mental health, it helps build your clinical and interpersonal skills across diverse care settings.
In this fourth edition you will find:
- A new chapter on EDI
- New reflections from students and registered nursing associates in the field
- Case studies and activities illustrating the nursing associate and assistant practitioner role in practice
This book is an essential companion for student nursing associates, assistant practitioners, and students enrolled on foundation degrees or higher-level healthcare apprenticeships.
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Gillian Rowe is a full-time writer and researcher working with marginalised groups such as the GRT community. She has edited and authored chapters for this book and has edited and written for the Learning Matters imprint on health promotion and ethics and values for nursing associates. Gillian has extensive experience of the healthcare sector, having been a qualified nurse and then managed a large residential care facility. Gillian completed a PGCE and lectured for Plymouth University; Gillian is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA).