Table of Contents

Part 1: Decision making: theory and practice
1: Karen Holland and Debbie Roberts: Principles of decision making
2: Debbie Roberts: Making decisions as a student: decision-making opportunities
3: Thérèse Leufer and Joanne Cleary-Holdforth: Using evidence for decision making
4: Debbie Roberts and Karen Holland: Learning from decision making
Part 2: Decision making and achieving competence
5: Ruth Chadwick: Professional values
6: Jenni Templeman and June Keeling: Communication, interpersonal skills, and decision making
7: Dawn Gawthorpe: Nursing practice and decision making
8: Mike Lappin: Leadership, management, team working, and decision making
Part 3: Decision making in specific fields of practice
9: Tony Warne and Gareth Holland: Mental health nursing and decision making
10: Aatefa Lunat and Denise Major: Decision making in children's and young people's nursing
11: Deborah Atkinson and Jane McGrath: Decision making in adult nursing
12: Sue Hart and Eva Scarlett: Decision making in learning disability nursing
Part 4: Decision making in professional practice
13: Sarah Ratcliffe and Joyce Smith: Decision making for transition to registration and preceptorship

About the Author

Karen Holland is Series Editor of the Prepare for Practice series. She has extensive experience in nurse education and practice and has co-authored numerous nursing textbooks. Karen is also Editor of the journal Nurse Education in Practice (Elsevier). She has a commitment to learning and teaching at all levels and is leading an evidence -based approach to education development in Salford School of Nursing and Midwifery.
Debbie Roberts is is an experienced nurse lecturer who teaches both pre-registration students and qualified nurses, she has written several peer reviewed papers and chapters in nursing text books relating to teaching and learning in nursing. She gained her Doctorate (PhD) in the field of nursing education, focusing on peer learning in practice.

Reviews

`By final year, we know we are graduating soon and that in just a few months we will be responsible and accountable for making clinical decisions. And sometimes this fact seems really scary! So I think that any opportunity to develop skills in this area is of some benefit and helps improve confidence for doing it in 'real life'.'
Amy Jenkinson, student of Mental Health Nursing, University of Bradford
`I have a handful of books from when I did my training, and none of them compare to this one. The chapters are detailed and easy to understand. The case studies allow students to imagine themselves in a certain situation and come up with ideas as to how they would manage it.'
Ebony Kunze, Registered Nurse
`This book is timely given the contemporary changes to nursing education in the UK.'
Trevor Simpson, Senior Lecturer, School of Health & Social Care, University of Lincoln