Placement Learning in Cancer & Palliative Care Nursing: A guide for students in practice - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

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.

• 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:

• 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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