Patient assessment and care planning in nursing / Lioba Howatson-Jones, Mooi Standing, Susan Roberts.

"This book introduces nursing students and novice practitioners to different stages of the assessment process. It covers a range of issues including the nurse's role in assessment, how to make sense of patient information, using assessment tools, nursing diagnosis, care planning principles and nursi...

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Uniform Title:Transforming nursing practice.
Main Author: Howatson-Jones, Lioba
Other Authors: Standing, Mooi
Roberts, Susan (Susan B.)
Language:English
Published: London : Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Learning Matters ; SAGE, 2012.
Series:Transforming nursing practice.
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Physical Description:viii, 151 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
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Summary:
"This book introduces nursing students and novice practitioners to different stages of the assessment process. It covers a range of issues including the nurse's role in assessment, how to make sense of patient information, using assessment tools, nursing diagnosis, care planning principles and nursing models, ethical dilemmas in assessment and decision-making in delivering nursing care"--P. [4] of cover.
Note:"Meeting the NMC standards and essential skills clusters for degree-level nursing"--Cover.
Call Number:RT48 .H683 2012
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-146) and index.
ISBN:9780857257376 (pbk.)
0857257374 (pbk.)
9780857258588
0857258583