Patient assessment and care planning in nursing

"Meeting the NMC standards and essential skills clusters"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1.Person-centred assessment and practice / Lioba Howatson-Jones -- 2.Understanding our role in patient assessment / Lioba Howatson-Jones -- 3.Making sense of patient information / Lioba Howatson-Jones -- 4.Assessment tools / Lioba Howatson-Jones -- 5.Nursing diagnosis / Lioba Howatson-Jones -- 6.Care-planning principles / Lioba Howatson-Jones -- 7.Relationship of nursing models to care planning / Lioba Howatson-Jones -- 8.Ethical aspects of patient assessment dilemmas / Lioba Howatson-Jones -- 9.Community health needs assessment / Susan Roberts -- 10.Patient assessment and decision-making / Mooi Standing.

Nurses of the future need to accurately assess people of all ages, with varying mental and physical problems, across different settings and with changing health needs. This book introduces student nurses and novice practitioners to the assessment process enabling them to identify patient problems in order for solutions to be planned and implemented.

Linked to the NMC Standards and Essential Skills Clusters for degree-level education, and with detailed case studies and scenarios demonstrating practical application of key theory, the book encourages critical thinking and urges students to consider the social, cultural, psychological and environmental factors as well as the physical symptoms that may be present when making assessments.