Full Description
"This dictionary is clear, concise and easy to use...My advice to anyone wishing to purchase a nursing dictionary would be to...buy this one"
Journal of Advanced Nursing (on the first edition)
All the information you'll ever need - in one dictionary!
Key features
* Over 15,000 entries
* Comprehensive - much more information than a pocket dictionary
* Informed by current nursing research and clinical practice
* Includes latest UK legislation and policy changes
* Accessible, authoritative and contemporary
* Invaluable and informative appendices
Appendices include:
· Normal values
· Lists of websites for key nursing journals and organizations
· The NMC code of professional conduct
· QAA benchmarking standards
· Nursing research, Information technology and emergency care
· Continuing professional development and PREP requirements
"very user friendly"
European Journal of Cancer Care (on the first edition)
Contents
Foreword vii List of Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xi
Pronunciation xii
Abbreviations xiii
Dictionary - A-Z definitions 1
Appendices 669
Appendix 1. Normal Values 673
Appendix 2. Nursing Organisations 679
Appendix 3. Nursing Journals 683
Appendix 4. Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Conduct 687
Appendix 5. Emergency Care 694
Appendix 6. Research 708
Appendix 7. IT 721
Appendix 8. CPD 726
Appendix 9. Nursing Benchmark Statements 733
