Palgrave Student Companions / The Nursing Companion

Introduction; P.Birchenall & N. Adams.- PART I: STUDYING NURSING.- The Context of Nursing; N.Lee
Your Nursing Course; J.Richardson & J.Davenport.- Key Skills for Nursing Students; M.Birchenall.- Key.- terms - end of part glossary.- PART II: CORE TOPICS.- Health Promotion and Public Health; J.Clayton & P.Birchenall.- Interpersonal and Professional Skills; A.Maestri-Banks & P.Pope.- User Involvement and User Perspective; T.Hostick & E.Hostick.- Understanding the Social Context of Healthcare; P.Morrell
The Psychological Context of Healthcare; R.Stack .- Helping People to Manage Pain; E.Briggs
Contemporary Preoperative and Postoperative Care; M.Mitchell.- Death and Dying; L.Nyatanga & B.Nyatanga.- Key terms - end of part glossary.- PART III: KEY CONCEPTS: BRANCHES OF NURSING
Adult Nursing; N.Lee & J.Parnell.- Nursing Children and Young People; B.Elliott, E.Wake, J.Jolley, S.Jolley, L.Shields & R.Williams.- Caring for People with Learning Disability; P.Birchenall & S.Baldwin
Mental Health Nursing; J.White, T.Welbourn, M.Howe, N.Burton, H.Palmer, T.Flanagan, C.Slee, D.Glenster & I.Barkley.- Caring for Older People; F.Irvine & C.Jones.- Key terms - end of part glossary.- PART IV: RESEARCH AND NURSING.- The Relevance of Research to Nursing; E.Ball.- Quantitative Research; S.Baldwin.- Qualitative Research; E.Ball.- Getting Research into Practice; A.Jinks & J.Richardson
Key terms - end of part glossary.- PART V: CAREERS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Career Pathways; J.Richardson.

PETER BIRCHENALL Professor and Independent Consultant in Nurse Education. He has a background in Learning Disability Nursing, Adult Nursing and Nurse Education. He has authored and co-authored several successful nursing textbooks. He has a background in nurse teacher education as well as leading courses in undergraduate and post graduate nursing. Peter has also worked as an Education Officer with the former English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting. Until his retirement Peter held the Chair in Health Studies at the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, UK. For nine years he was Editor-in-Chief of Nurse Education Today, a position he relinquished in 2002.

NICOLA ADAMS is Professor of Rehabilitation, School of Health, Community& Education Studies, Northumbria University, UK.

'We are thrilled with this text and intend to make it a required reading for all Pre Registration Nursing students BEFORE they start the course.' - Jeanne Landon-Campbell, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Cumbria University, UK 'This proved such a useful book to help with interview/application for Nurse Training that most of the students bought it the instant I referred to it as soon as it was first published. As the course progressed the students continued to find this a useful source of reference for a number of subject areas - it truly became their "companion". I could not recommend this highly enough.' - Moira Jessup, School of Arts and General Education, Llandrillo College, UK 'I like this book. It does particularly well to focus on things from a students' perspective. Not many books manage to do this.' -Russell Harrison-Paul, School of Nursing, University of Nottingham, UK 'I would recommend this book to students who want a flavour of the kind of demands that nursing brings' - Anthea Wilson, Lecturer in Health and Social Care, Faculty of Health & Social Care, The Open University, UK 'A commendable piece of work; this is a very useful reference text that takes a different approach to nursing. It is a very exciting book and I am grateful for having had the opportunity to read it.' - Dr. Graham Thurgood- Senior Lecturer, Division of Acute Care, Department of Health Sciences, School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, UK. '...brings together material by top academic nurse educators and is aimed at beginner nurses or those who are contemplating a nursing career' - Writers' News