LeMone and Burke's Medical-Surgical Nursing

National Patient Safety Standards have been updated from the Australian Commission on Quality and Health CareThis pack contains 1 copy of LeMone and Burke's Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking for Person-Centred Care and 1 copy of Nursing Student's Clinical Survival Guide

LeMone and Burke's Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking for Person-Centred Care
Provides a comprehensive, contemporary and consistent systems-based approach that engages students and provides the practical knowledge and skills they need to care for adult patients with a focus on person-centred, holistic nursing care.

Designed to:

• emphasise a person-centred philosophy whereby the person who is the recipient of care is seen as an integral member of the team and consideration of their needs and wishes is paramount
• foster critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills as the basis for safe clinical practice and nursing excellence
• recognise the nurse's role as an essential member of the inter-professional healthcare team.

Nursing Student's Clinical Survival Guide
This quick-reference guide is not rivalled by anything else in the market. As a support text, Reid-Searl's Nursing Student's Clinical Survival Guide assists students with tips to competently conduct clinical skills for safe and person-centred care in clinical settings.

Whether used individually across students' education and into early practice, or as a tool to complement a comprehensive text such as Berman, Skills in Clinical Nursing, Clinical Survival Guide students to deliver competent person-centred care in professional practice.

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Tracy Levett-Jones is a Distinguished Professor and Head of School in the School of Nursing & Midwifery at the University of Technology Sydney. Her program of research focuses on patient safety, empathy, belongingness, clinical reasoning, and simulation.

Professor Trudy Dwyer is a Research Intensive Academic at CQUniversity and Visiting Research Fellow with Central Queensland Health and Hospital Service. With a background in critical care nursing, she has extensive experience coordinating undergraduate courses/programs, curriculum development and research higher-degree supervision.

Professor Lorna Moxham started nursing in 1980 and is a 3-year specialist hospital-trained psychiatric nurse. Lorna is passionate about the nursing profession, particularly mental health nursing, and is actively contributing at regional, state, national and international levels.

Kerry Reid-Searl is currently a Professor of Innovation and Simulation in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Tasmania. Kerry has been involved in nursing education for more than 30 years and over this time she has remained clinically current. Her research interests include patient safety, simulation, paediatrics and wound care.

Kamaree Houlis-Berry's career spans more than 25 years and commenced with the Australian Army where she trained as a medic and then became a nursing officer at the rank of lieutenant. She has been employed in the public, private and academic sectors in a number of roles, and is now Founder and Director of her own advisory and consulting company.

Keryln Carville has extensive clinical experience and is committed to research and education within the domains of wound and ostomy care. She was appointed a Fellow of the Australian Wound Management Association (now Wounds Australia) in 2006.

Majella Hales works as a casual academic at the Australian Catholic University in Brisbane. Originally hospital trained, she has worked in nursing for over 25 years. She maintains her clinical experience by undertaking agency shifts in critical care units across South-East Queensland and provides clinical facilitation for undergraduate nursing students for various local universities.

Nicole Knox has been working in nursing for 20 years, including roles as a nursing academic, clinical nurse specialist, clinical educator and nurse unit manager. She has worked in several universities in Sydney where her roles have included unit coordination, teaching and research. She is currently a sessional academic at Western Sydney University.

David Stanley began his nursing career in the days when nurses wore huge belt buckles and funny hats. David completed his nursing doctorate in the UK, researching in the area of clinical leadership. He retains a research interest in clinical leadership, men in nursing and the role of the media in nursing.

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