Main description:

An accessible textbook to help students develop their study skills.

Study Skills is an accessible textbook for nursing, health and social care students seeking to improve their study skills, develop their resilience, enhance their employability and cultivate a love of lifelong learning.

Through clear explanations, helpful hints, activities and quizzes, the book will help you to develop your study skills for both your studies and future career. You will learn:

How to manage your time
How to develop your reading and note-taking skills
How to search the literature and apply critical thinking to your reading
How to write essays and reference your sources
How to use feedback and reflective practice to improve your academic performance
How to deliver effective presentations

This book will help you to develop your study skills and become a resilient lifelong learner.

Essentials is a series of accessible, introductory textbooks for students in nursing, health and social care. New and forthcoming titles in the series:

The Care Process
Communication Skills
Leadership
Mental Health
Promoting Health and Wellbeing
Study Skills

Contents:

About the authors; Introduction

1. Skills for the resilient learner

Peggy Murphy and Marjorie Ghisoni

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Five ways (5rs) to develop resilience for health and wellbeing

1.3 Developing resilience in everyday life

1.4 Developing resilience for lifelong learning

1.5 Developing resilience for employability

1.6 Conclusion

2. Effective time management

Peggy Murphy

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Strategies to combat time-wasters

2.3 Suggested study toolkit

2.4 Conclusion

3. Reading and note-taking skills

Marjorie Ghisoni

3.1 Finding the right information

3.2 Making concise notes

3.3 Writing a literature review

3.4 Conclusion

4. Skills for literature searching

Seren Roberts

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Starting your literature search

4.3 What is literature?

4.4 Developing a systematic approach to literature reviewing

4.5 Conclusion

5. Skills for critical thinking

Tracy Ross

5.1 Introduction

5.2 What is critical thinking?

5.3 How to think critically: a six-stage process

5.4 How does critical thinking improve resilience?

5.5 How does critical thinking improve employability?

5.6 Conclusion

6. Writing essays and reports

Marjorie Ghisoni

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Begin at the beginning

6.3 Make a plan

6.4 Referencing from journals and books

6.5 Organising and composing your work

6.6 Engineering your work and writing reports

6.7 Spelling and structure

6.8 Conclusion

7. Referencing skills

Helen Thomas, Jacqui Maung, Ella Turner and Paul Verlander

7.1 Referencing and academic integrity

7.2 Plagiarism

7.3 Developing a rigorous approach to referencing

7.4 Referencing

7.5 Conclusion

8. Feedback

Peggy Murphy and Craig Morley

8.1 Introduction

8.2 The purpose of feedback

8.3 Feedback mindset

8.4 Feed-forward

8.5 Action-planning

8.6 Marking rubrics

8.7 What to do after you receive feedback

8.8 Conclusion

9. Reflective writing skills

Marjorie Ghisoni

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Models of reflective practice

9.3 Should we follow our gut instinct?

9.4 Keeping a reflective journal

9.5 Developing reflective resilience in our everyday practice

9.6 Reflective writing, self-compassion and student resilience

9.7 Reflective writing and lifelong learning

9.8 Professional requirements for reflective practice and lifelong learning

9.9 Reflective writing for employability

9.10 Conclusion

10. Skills for teamworking

Liz Lefroy

10.1 Introduction

10.2 What is a team?

10.3 Teamwork in time of change

10.4 Team role theory

10.5 The development of groups and teams

10.6 Communication and sustainable teamwork

10.7 Dealing with conflict

10.8 Resilience

10.9 Conclusion

11. Skills for presentations and public speaking

Paul Jeorrett

11.1 Introduction

11.2 The 3 Ps: preparation, planning, practice

11.3 Delivering the presentation

11.4 Conclusion

12. Skills for employability in health and social care

Marjorie Ghisoni

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Developing employability skills using your lifelong learning skills

12.3 Key lifelong learning skills for employability

12.4 Employability skills and professional practice

12.5 Developing resilience skills to improve your employability

12.6 Developing transferable skills for employability

12.7 Conclusion

13. Skills for the developing professional

Marjorie Ghisoni

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Developing resilience as a professional

13.3 Developing employability skills in professional practice

13.4 Developing lifelong learning skills as a professional

13.4 Conclusion

14. Lifelong learning skills: future-proof your learning

Peggy Murphy

14.1 What is lifelong learning?

14.2 Where does resilience fit into LLL?

14.3 Employability and lifelong learning skills

14.4 Future-proofing learning to maintain professional standards

14.5 Future-proofing learning to maintain professional registration

14.6 Combining reflective practice with a growth mindset

14.7 Conclusion

Answers to chapter quizzes; Index