Essential Clinical Skills (ECS) addresses the practical (skills) component of the Diploma of Nursing, HLT54121.
Successful
completion of the skills component is mandatory for accreditation. ECS links nursing theory to clinical practice and helps you to expand your skills and understanding of different care situations.
Skills grids in the text help you to assess your own performance, gain feedback on your performance and maintain a personal record of skills you have practised. The text is used as a handbook, a set of checklists and as an assessment portfolio, in conjunction with a Foundations of Nursing text.
Features:
- Essential Clinical Skills clearly and succinctly explains each key clinical skill and provides a structured format for students to undertake many of the skills taught in HLT54121. Each skill is mapped to the key units of competency as well as the indicators in the Enrolled nurse standards for practice, where relevant
- Each chapter contains descriptions of nursing skills and the underlying knowledge required within core units of HLT54121 The Diploma of Nursing (Enrolled), and some of the most popular elective units
- Skills are broken down into steps to enable students to more easily concentrate on the complexities of the situation than if the task were an overwhelming whole
- Instructor Resource Pack - Essential Clinical Skills: Enrolled Nurses Instructor's Resource Pack
About the Authors
Joanne Tollefson was Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of the School of Nursing Sciences at James Cook University. She is a registered nurse with many years of clinical experience in several countries and extensive experience in nursing education at both the hospital and tertiary levels. Her research interests include competency-based education and clinical assessment, development of reflective practitioners for a changing work environment, chronic pain and arbovirus disease in the tropics. Joanne is also a two-time recipient of the National Awards for
Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (Carrick Award, 2007 and Australian Teaching and Learning Council Award, 2008). She is now retired from formal teaching but continues to engage in nursing via researching, writing and editing nursing texts.
Gayle Watson (RN, BNurs (Hons), Med Studies) has more than 30 years’ experience in nursing and nursing education, teaching across all areas of delivery including the classroom, nursing laboratory, simulation laboratory and clinical placement. She is currently employed in a senior academic and program management role at North Metropolitan TAFE (WA). Her experience in nursing education includes work in both registered and enrolled nursing education programs with greatest focus in the VET sector. During recent years she has focused on applying her research and study interests of education into establishing enrolled nursing education that promotes active and engaged learners who become not just competent beginner practitioners, but lifelong learners.
Eugenie Jelly (RN, BAppSc [NsgEd], MEdMgt) is a hospital trained registered nurse whose career progressed into the education sphere, supported by academic studies in that area. Her teaching experience of over 40 years includes both registered and enrolled nursing programs within hospital-based schools of nursing, university and the TAFE sector. Her work within TAFE has included curriculum development, resource and assessment development, course coordination and teaching in the classroom, nursing laboratory and clinical area. She currently maintains an active clinical interest in the supervision/facilitation of nursing students while on clinical placement.
Karen Tambree (RN, BNurs, GradCertTEd) has worked as a nurse for more than 40 years. Her area of expertise is palliative care and oncology, both paediatric and adult. Karen has worked in both the university and TAFE sector, and has been involved in nurse education within the TAFE sector for more than 15 years. She is experienced in nursing course development, resource development and leadership. She has taught within the classroom, nursing laboratory and clinical supervision. Karen originally trained as an enrolled nurse and later completed a Bachelor of Nursing and Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Education.
