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Alexander's Nursing Practice

Hospital and Home

  • 6th Edition - April 4, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Ian Peate
  • Language: English

**Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Long Term Care and Home Care**Alexander’s Nursing Practice: Hospital and Home, Sixth Edition is the most comprehensive textbook availab… Read more

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**Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Long Term Care and Home Care**

Alexander’s Nursing Practice: Hospital and Home, Sixth Edition is the most comprehensive textbook available for undergraduate nursing students today.

This resource will prepare students for their future role as healthcare professionals in a variety of settings. It covers all the basics of nursing, including care of patients with common disorders, core nursing issues like medicines management and infection prevention and control, and how to nurse specific patient groups. The sixth edition has been fully updated to incorporate the latest evidence, policies and registration requirements, and reflects the transformative changes currently occurring in healthcare policies, procedures and technologies.

With a host of features to enhance the learning and teaching experience, this book will make a significant contribution to preparing compassionate nurses who will deliver patient-centred, high quality and holistic care.

Key features

  • Designed to help the reader navigate the demands of the latest NMC educational requirements
  • Expert team of contributors led by renowned editor, Ian Peate OBE FRCN
  • Fully updated with the latest evidence and trends - incorporates the latest practice guidelines, research findings and clinical standards relevant to the nursing field
  • Addresses the role of nurses in primary care settings, general practice nursing responsibilities, chronic disease management, health screening and the delivery of integrated, patient-centred care within the UK primary care landscape
  • Richly illustrated throughout to reinforce key concepts, demonstrate clinical procedures and engage students in active learning
  • Includes a wide range of helpful learning features including case studies and critical thinking exercises – helps the reader to analyse complex situations, make evidence-based decisions and communicate effectively with patients and healthcare team members
  • Pedagogical features to help students navigate the textbook, organise their learning and review key concepts efficiently
  • Supplemented with online material including MCQs, image bank, critical thinking questions, extra online material (supplementary text), website figure references and extra online images

Readership

Pre registration senior nursing students (BSc and Sc level)

Table of contents

1. On Being a Nurse

Section 1 Care of Patients With Common Disorders

2. Nursing Patients With Cardiovascular Disorders

3. Nursing Patients With Respiratory Disorders

4. Nursing Patients With Gastrointestinal, Liver and Biliary Disorders

5. Nursing Patients With Endocrine Disorders

6. Nursing Patients With Diabetes Mellitus

7. Nursing Patients With Disorders of the Lymphatic and Immune Systems

8. Nursing Patients With Disorders of the Breast and Reproductive Systems
PART 1 NURSING PATIENTS WITH DISORDERS OF THE FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
PART 2 NURSING PATIENTS WITH DISORDERS OF THE BREAST


9. Nursing Patients With Disorders of the Male Reproductive Systems

10. Nursing Patients With Urinary Disorders

11. Nursing Patients With Disorders of the Nervous System

12. Nursing Patients With Musculoskeletal Disorders

13. Nursing Patients With Blood Disorders

14. Nursing Patients With Skin Disorders

15. Nursing Patients With Disorders of the Eye and Sight Impairment

16. Nursing Patients With Disorders of the Ear, Nose and Throat

Section 2 Core Nursing Issues

17. Pharmacology and Medicines Management

18. Infection Prevention and Control

19. The Deteriorating Patient, Recognising and Managing Shock

20. Pain Management

21. Maintaining Fluid, Electrolyte and Acid–Base Balance

22. Nutrition and Health

23. Tissue Viability and Managing Chronic Wounds

24. Maintaining Continence

Section 3 Nursing Specific Patient Groups

25. The Care of a Person Undergoing Surgery

26. Nursing the Patient Who Experiences Trauma

27. Nursing the Unconscious Patient

28. Nursing the Critically Ill Patient

29. Nursing the Patient With Burn Injury

30. Care and Rehabilitation of People With Long-Term Conditions

31. Nursing the Patient With Cancer

32. Nursing Patients Who Need Palliative Care

33. Nursing Care for Older People

Product details

  • Edition: 6
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 1, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Ian Peate

Affiliations and expertise
Editor in Chief, British Journal of Nursing; Consultant Editor, Journal of Paramedic Practice; Consultant Editor, International Journal for Advancing Practice; Visiting Professor, Northumbria University; Visiting Professor, St Georges University of London and Kingston University London; Professorial Fellow, Roehampton University; Visiting Senior Clinical Fellow, University of Hertfordshire, UK