This book is a helpful companion for those hoping to become nurses or midwives. Applications to nursing and midwifery courses are on the rise, and with limited university places available, competition is high. This accessible guide, packed with up to date and practical information, will guide you through all stages of the admissions process and maximise your likelihood of success.
This useful and timely book has been designed as a helpful companion for those looking to get into nursing or midwifery. Applications to professional courses continue to rise, making nursing one of the top five most popular courses. An accessible guide like this, packed with up to date and practical information, will guide you through all stages of the admissions process and maximise your chance of success.
Covering every part of the application process, from choosing a nursing or midwifery course and deciding if it's the course for you, to interview techniques and work experience advice, 'Getting into Nursing and Midwifery Courses' has all of the essential information would-be students need to secure a place on the course of their choice.
Find Success in Nursing School! Getting The Most From Nursing School presents a roadmap to guide talented men and women along their journey from considering nursing as a profession to their first position as a registered nurse. This exceptional resource provides the necessary guidance to ensure that students get the most from their education and become excellent care providers, policymakers, educators, and researchers and achieve their goal of improving the health and well-being of others. Getting The Most From Nursing School is written by a doctorally prepared nurse, researcher, and professor and can be distinguished by its evidence-based information, its anecdotes, and its empirically grounded recommendations from nurses who have decades of experience in both clinical practice and as educators. Sample chapters include: Why become a nurse? Nursing school is tough...getting through the classes Surviving and succeeding in clinical Preparing for success on the NCLEX
Getting Into Nursing & Midwifery should be of interest to individuals who are looking to enter into this particular field. It highlights the possible paths open to the individual and provides an insight into the health industry.
Combining a theoretical approach with practical activities, this book is invaluable for nursing and midwifery students and will help them to master the basics of writing at university. It equips students with the skills needed to examine cognitive processes such as reflection and critical thinking and includes essential information on referencing correctly and avoiding plagiarism. Going beyond the traditional essay, it provides support and guidance on producing care critiques, action plans, portfolios and journal article reviews alongside complex argumentative writing and undergraduate dissertation proposals. Written in an engaging and accessible style, this is a comprehensive writing toolkit for students of nursing, midwifery, health and social care. Suitable for students of all levels, it is ideal for use in class or for independent study.
Nursing and midwifery students are required to communicate in writing in a variety of forms, for a variety of potential audiences including their colleagues, allied health professionals, administrators and, most importantly, their patients and the public. Dena Bain Taylor is an experienced teacher of writing and critical skills across the range of allied health professions, and understands the types of writing nursing and midwifery students do and the writing issues they face. Her accessible, straightforward book - tailored specifically to the content and conventions of nursing and midwifery curricula - teaches students to write persuasively and correctly, both to support them in their courses and to prepare them for their professional careers. The book: - offers practical strategies for using language to achieve clear, persuasive writing; - provides clear explanations of underlying principles; - contains samples of good and improvable writing, leading the student step-by-step through the whole writing process; - focuses on the genres and styles of writing that nursing and midwifery students are typically asked for. With regular summaries, learning aids, checklists and a glossary of key terms, nursing and midwifery students at all levels will find this book easy to follow and handy to refer to for help with the writing they need to do throughout their course.
In a unique and detailed historical study, Nurse-Midwifery: The Birth of a New American Profession, Laura E. Ettinger fills a void with the first book-length documentation of the emergence of American nurse-midwifery. This occupation developed in the 1920s involving nurses who took advanced training in midwifery. In Nurse-Midwifery, Ettinger shows how nurse-midwives in New York City; eastern Kentucky; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and other places both rebelled against and served as agents of a nationwide professionalization of doctors and medicalization of childbirth. Nurse-Midwifery reveals the limitations that nurses, physicians, and nurse-midwives placed on the profession of nurse-midwifery from the outset because of the professional interests of nursing and medicine. The book argues that nurse-midwives challenged what scholars have called the "male medical model" of childbirth, but the cost of the compromises they made to survive was that nurse-midwifery did not become the kind of independent, autonomous profession it might have been.
This is the thoroughly revised and completely rewritten edition of a popular textbook which is a compilation of all of the concepts of obstetrics and gynecology to help the nursing student become an efficient midwife who can provide effective and safe client care. The text covers the following topics: - The remale reproductive system. - Fundamentals of reproduction. - The fetus. - Pregnancy. - The fetal skull and maternal pelvis. - Normal labour. - Normal puerperium. - Obstetric disorders in pregnancy. - Medical and surgical disorders in pregnancy. - Malpositions and malpresentations. - Abnormal labour. - Obstetric interventions and operations. - Abnormal puerperium. - The newborn infant. - Pharmacology and child birth. - Home birth. - Complementary and alternative therapies. - Contraception. - Instruments in obstetrics and gynaecology. - Gynaecological disorders in pregnancy.
