Placement Learning in Cancer & Palliative Care Nursing: A guide for students in practice, 1e
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Are you unsure about your cancer and palliative care placement? Do you need guidance on what to prepare to get the most out of your practice learning? Will you have the range of clinical skills to care for people with cancer? What learning opportunities will there be to meet your competencies? How can you maximise your learning during this placement?
This book will help you with all these concerns. It will advise you on 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 and meet your competencies.
- Takes a logical, step-by-step approach to preparing for learning on a cancer and palliative care placement
- Provides the principles of care, treatment and management of someone with a cancer diagnosis, linking university-learned theory to clinical practice
- Gives helpful evidence-based practice examples and resources to support placement learning
- Identifies clinical skills that underpin care of an individual with cancer
- Highlights potential learning opportunities and experiences available on a cancer and palliative care placement
- Explains how to develop your clinical portfolio by completing specific exercises and activities
- Maps all activities and exercises to the NMC competencies
- Advises on approaches to a range of situations that may arise as a student nurse
- Adopts a case-study approach to consolidating learning and to explore the patient pathway from pre-diagnosis, through a range of treatment options to living beyond cancer or end-of-life care.
Series features:
- 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.
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.
Titles in this series:
Surgical nursing
Medical nursing
Cancer and palliative care nursing
Mental health nursing
Community care nursing
Older people nursing
Each book also covers:
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- 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
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Additional information
| Publisher | 1st edition (21 Nov. 2012), Bailliere Tindall |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 518 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 9780702043000 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0702043000 |
| Dimensions | 12.19 x 1.52 x 18.29 cm |
by Su
I was 17 when I received my Home Nursing and Palliative Care certificates (the latter was originally called “End of Life Progression”) but I have always kept my knowledge up to date.
Cancer and Palliative Care Nursing is one of a series of “Placement Learning” books which have been written by nurses for nurses.
The book is divided into 3 sections:
1 – preparation for placement experiences
2 – placement learning opportunities
3 – consolidating learning: the patient experience
Areas covered include:
– what cancer is
– perceptions of cancer
– how cancer is diagnosed and the impact of diagnosis
– different treatments
– management of symptoms
– caring for patients at the end of life
– case studies
The information is interesting and accessible for most, if not all, reader.
The book could do with flow charts so that the student nurse can follow through the procedures, some graphs and some colour to break up the continuous monochrome. I realise that it is for pocket guide for use by students but a supporting CD-ROM for home study and backup for the text would have been a welcome bonus.
There is, however, one problem – the size of the print used is tiny, really tiny and could cause problems for anyone with less than perfect eyesight
by Keats The Cat
Whether you’re a student nurse about to a start your placement or a newly qualified nurse about to start you’re first job on a ward this small pocket sized guide will definitely be a useful and informative resource for you.
Covering all the main pallative issues you’ll find enough detailed information written in a clear and concise form that can be read quickly ‘on the go’ to get you through the day.
Definately worth the money.
by Chris Morse
This little book is aimed specifically at students who are undertaking a clinical placement for specialist cancer care/pallative care. I am not training to be a nurse, but I am interested in this subject. I found this book to be a bit more than I could understand, although the writing and layout of the book has been kept simple, with allot of information and help to increase your learning in this subject. This includes:
Chapter aims
Further reading
References
Activites (practical ways to improve your understanding)
This is a very handy book for the student nurse. It is literally packed with loads of information, guidence, illustrations and advice.
A must for student nurses.
by Lauren Towell
Would recommend this book to all student nurses attending a cancer an palliative care setting.
There is lot to take in during your practice time and usually a lot of questions regarding care, symptoms, medications, type of chemotherapy and treatments. This guide gives an overview of all aspect of care provided to patients with cancer, it is easy to read and understandable.
An excellent resource for all students going into cancer/ palliative care settings and for student interested in this area of nursing.
by SNTM
I bought this for a palliative care placement I was allocated. The book covers a really great area within palliative care but also learning competencies, would recommend for anyone doing a placement within this setting
by thementalmen
There are some jobs that are difficult but rewarding – even though some of the results are truly heartbreaking. I’ll be honest I don’t have the courage to be able to do this job but I so admire the people who do work in palliative care and in oncology and I needed this book to ensure that my patients are being referred correctly and to assist the students who come onto the ward who are still learning their trade in the nhs. It is a rewarding book and I at least now know the challenges that the staff there feel – if you are facing this challenge then this book is a gentle warm push into the unknown.
by Occasional Shopper
Great little buy. So much so my dog ate the cover ????♀️
Lots of information great for both mentor and student
by Unbridled
When I searched for a book on ‘cancer nursing’ to read before my new placement, I never expected to find a book specifically directed at students – especially those in the UK – and at such an amazing price! The other books I found were well out of my budget range.
Excellent book, full of all the information a second year student might possibly need when embarking on an Oncology placement, or indeed when revising for exams (I could have done with having this book before my Pathophysiology exam last week, but never mind).
Student nurses – buy this book, you will not regret it!