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Get 24 months FREE access to an interactive eBook when you buy the paperback! (Print paperback version only, ISBN 9781473929579)

A Unique Blend of Digital and Print Learning Resources!

Essentials of Nursing Practice is a ground-breaking new resource which introduces nursing students to the core topics they need to master during their first year and beyond. It brings the study of nursing to life across all four fields of nursing, in all settings, focussing on what it takes to be the best nurse you can be through person-centred compassionate care. Unlike any other book it uniquely blends digital and print learning resources to engage all styles of learners and to provide lecturers with helpful resources to use in their teaching.

More than just a book!

An accompanying interactive eBook links to extra resources including videos, case studies, interactive revision quizzes, flashcards, study plans and more. Students can use the eBook to study where and when they want, and read, annotate and search the book on a tablet, laptop or PC. All these resources are also available through SAGE edge - visit https://edge.sagepub.com/essentialnursing to find out more.

(Please note that the free access to these resources is only available when you purchase the paperback copy of this textbook)

Key features of the print and eBook help students to:

• Understand: Colourful easy-to-navigate design, chapter topic lists, study plans and knowledge links help students to quickly grasp what they need to know and how topics are interrelated.

• Apply: Real voices from students, patients and nurses, case studies with questions, clinical skills videos, and anatomy and physiology revision help students apply knowledge in placements or practical assessments.

• Go further: ′What′s the Evidence′ summaries of research, critical thinking activities, links to SAGE journal articles, useful websites and further reading help students prepare for essays or for the next stage of their course.

• Revise: Chapter summaries, test-yourself interactive questions and key term flashcards help students do their best at assessments and exams.


Advisory Editors

Learning Disabilities: Robert Jenkins and Ruth Northway, University of South Wales

Child Nursing: Carol Hall, The University of Nottingham

Mental Health: Steven Trenoweth, University of Bournemouth

Adult Nursing:  Karen Elcock, Kingston University London

Clinical Skills: Fiona Everett and Wendy Wright, University of the West of Scotland

Catherine Delves-Yates is an experienced nurse and a Lecturer at the School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK.  She started her nursing career as a student at the Nightingale School of Nursing, London and has worked clinically in adult and paediatric critical care in the UK and has taught and nursed in America, Africa and Nepal.  Her passion is to ensure all nurses have the knowledge, skills and professionalism to deliver effective compassionate care to each of their patients.  Catherine is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Buea and the Higher Institute of Applied Medical Sciences, Cameroon and an international advisor to the Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Nepal.  Currently she is researching whether nursing students’ views of health and illness alter during their pre-registration nursing programme.