Main description:

Worried about your placement? Will you fit in? Will you have the right skills? What do you need to learn for practice assessments?

This book will help you with all these concerns. It will tell you 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.

A logical, step-by-step approach to preparing for a medical placement
Helps make the most of learning opportunities
Explains how to develop medical competencies, mapping specific cancer and palliative care exercises and activities to the NMC competencies
Narratives from other students describe what the placement will really be like
Honest discussion of the challenges of a medical placement to help avoid problems
Advice on possible approaches to situations that may arise
Focus on the essential evidence base of cancer and palliative care nursing, linking theory to practice

Series features:

A unique guide to getting the most from clinical placements
What to expect before a placement
What you can expect to learn on placement
How to consolidate your experience and learning
Clear links and examples with NMC proficiencies
Guidance on what to use as evidence for portfolios
Short case studies to link theory with practice
Key points reminder boxes

Worried about your next placement? Will you 'fit in'? Will you have the right skills? What do you need to learn to meet practice assessments?

This series will help you with all these concerns. It will tell you what to expect from each placement, what you can learn, how to link theory and practice, and how to make the most of your learning opportunities.

This is the only series specifically for student nurses undertaking specific practice placements, and will give you all the information you need in a user-friendly format. Each book in the series covers a specific area of practice for a typical placement on a pre-registration nursing course. Each title provides:

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.

Titles in the Placement Learning series:

Surgical nursing

Medical nursing

Cancer and palliative care nursing

Mental health nursing

Community care nursing

Older people nursing

Contents:

Section 1 Preparation for Practice Placement Experience: Understanding the concepts of being an Older person

Chapter 1 Exploring the concept of older people nursing

Chapter 2 Policy related to working with older people in nursing practice

Chapter 3 Attitudes to working with older people

Chapter 4 Valuing diversity

Chapter 5 Theories of ageing

Chapter 6 Dementia and delirium

Chapter 7 Core philosophies of care for older people

Chapter 8 Preparation for practice learning experience

Section 2 Placement learning opportunities : general principles of care

Chapter 9 Communication, assessment and planning care

Chapter 10 Dignity in care for older people

Chapter 11 Safeguarding older adults

Chapter 12 Family care in old age

Chapter 13 The concept of independence in old age

Chapter 14 Planning multi-disciplinary discharge

Section 3 Reflecting on the Older patient experience: Case studies

Chapter 15 Case study 1 - Caring for a patient following a stroke (cerebral vascular accident or CVA)

Chapter 16 Case study 2 - Falls prevention

Chapter 17 Case study 3 - Caring for an older patient and their family at the end of life

Chapter 18 Case study 4 - Mental health and Older people

Section 4 Consolidating Learning

Chapter 19 Reflection and future learning