Ref: 04179

Authors: Jayne Taylor

Number of Pages: 132

Publication Date: 2003

ISBN: 0748771190

Cover: Paperback

Price: £14.95

If you are a health care student just starting out in your training, or are returning to practice after a break, the Foundations in Nursing and Health Care series is for you!
In the only multiprofessional, introductory series for health professionals, each title is written in an interactive and accessible way from a shared learning prospective. This unique series can be used as a complete learning tool or each title can be used individually as a guide to a specialist area.
The varied nature of your practical work within healthcare settings will demand a variety of skills. The study skills you will need as a health professional in training are also varied and Jayne Taylor has written this practical guide specifically to show you how to gain and develop these skills. Study Skills in Health Care provides you with more than simply a guide to studying however. Interlaced within the chapters are hints on how to 'survive' the unique experience of being a healthcare student which requires you to combine studying at an advanced level with practical workplace training. Chapters cover giving a presentation or seminar, essay writing, library skillsm succeeding in examinations and surviving clinical placements.

Key Features:

• Provides all the relevant underpinning theory without assuming prior knowledge.
• Case Studies drawn from multi-professional settings and reflective activities demonstrate scenarios and encourage you to question how to practice and learn.
• Regular Top Tips and Key Points provide convenient signposts to good practice and summarise concepts under discussion.
• Chapters commence with Learning Outcomes and conclude with Rapid Recap short answer questions (answers are provided in an Appendix).
• Cartoons reinforce the theory and add to the attractive two-colour design.