Main description:

This comprehensive text introduces health and social care theory and practice for students studying at foundation degree level, including those on nursing associate and assistant practitioner pathways.

Keeping themes of professionalism and patient-centred care at its core, this text equips readers to deliver effective, safe, and responsive care in a wide range of settings. It anticipates future directions for practice and provides readers with skills they will need throughout their careers. Divided into four parts, it explores the foundations of academic study, becoming and being a professional, working with patients and service users, and improving services and improving health.

Clearly presented and reader-friendly, this textbook is an essential companion for health and social care students, including nursing associates and assistant practitioners.

Contents:

1.Introduction. 2. The essential study skills for health and social care students. 3.Research, the research 'basics' and evidence-based practice. 4.The policy and legislative backdrop to health and social care practice in the United Kingdom. 5.Becoming a health and social care professional. 6.Working with others: Supervision and mentoring. 7.The nuts and bolts of the human body. 8.Caring for people with long-term conditions and multimorbidity: A health and social care perspective. 9.Person-centred care: A paramount concept in health and social care. 10.Power, creativity and service user involvement in social work and health and social care education. 11.Ethics and ethical dilemmas in health and social care. 12.Introduction to public health and health promotion. 13.The theory and practice of service improvement in health and social care.