Placement Learning – serie

Are you unsure about your cancer and palliative care placement? Do you need guidance on what to prepare to get the most out of your practice learning? Will you have the range of clinical skills to care for people with cancer? What learning opportunities will there be to meet your competencies? How can you maximise your learning during this placement?

This book will help you with all these concerns. It will advise you on what to expect from the placement, what you can learn, how to link theory and practice, and how to make the most of your learning opportunities and meet your competencies.

Worried about your Mental Health placement? Will you fit in? Will you have the right skills? What do you need to learn for practice assessments?

This book will help you with all these concerns. It will tell you what to expect from the placement, what you can learn, how to link theory and practice, and how to make the most of your learning opportunities.

Placement Learning in Mental Health Nursing covers the following areas:

A logical, step-by-step approach to preparing for a mental health placement

Helps make the most of learning opportunities

Explains how to develop mental health competencies

Narratives from other students describe what the placement will really be like

Honest discussion of the challenges of a mental health placement to help avoid problems

Advice on possible approaches to situations that may arise

Keeps the aim of recovery as a central philosophy in line with contemporary thinking in mental health services.