Includes bibliographical references and index.

Achieving Competencies for Nursing Practice: A handbook for student nurses; Achieving Competencies for Nursing Practice: A handbook for student nurses; Praise for this book; Contents; The editors and contributors; Foreword; Introduction; 1. The importance of evidence-based professional nursing practice; Section 1: Professional values; 2. Professional values for nursing; 3. Owning your standards of care; Section 2: Communication and interpersonal skills; 4. Developing effective communication and interpersonal skills; 5. Developing skills in solution-focused interactions. 6. Com munication in difficult situationsSection 3: Nursing practice and decision-making; 7. An introduction to clinical decision-making in practice; 8. Advanced decision-making: involving patients and relatives in decisions on care; Section 4: Leadership, management and team working; 9. Effective leadership, management and team working skills; 10. Enhancing and developing leadership, management and team working skills in the community setting; 11. Leadership, management and team working in an acute care setting. Section 5: Achieving competencies: simulation, working with mentors and learning when working abroad12. Simulation: crafting your care; 13. Working with mentors: how to get the most from working with your mentors in practice; 14. Learning abroad: the student experience of nursing in a European or international context; Domains Appendix: NMC Competencies for entry to the register; Index; Back Cover.

This book will offer examples to nursing students to enable a creative and innovative understanding of how the competencies may be demonstrated in the many contexts where practice occurs with individuals, groups or possibly communities.