All nursing students are required to meet the seven standards produced by the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) before being entered onto the professional register. Fundamentals of Assessment and Care Planning for Nurses addresses two of these important standards, helping readers become proficient in assessing patient needs, and planning, providing and evaluating care.

This timely publication adopts a practical approach with NMC proficiencies at its core, providing guidance and insight into the application of key skills and demonstrating competency in real-life settings.

• Centres around a fictitious nuclear family to provide a practical basis to the various chapters and assessment
• Offers mnemonics to enable comprehensive history taking and systematic physical assessment
• Helps readers address socio-cultural considerations they may face in practice
• Includes links to literature that provides further support and additional information

Fundamentals of Assessment and Care Planning for Nurses is an important resource for pre-registration nursing students and Nursing Associates who are required to demonstrate proficiency in the new NMC standards, and other registered practitioners seeking to update their knowledge.

Fundamentals of Assessment and Care Planning for Nurses is designed to help nursing and healthcare students understand the essentials associated with assessment and care planning of adult patients. It will help you to recognise and respond compassionately to the needs of those you offer care to, work in partnership with those receiving care, assisting you to seek and access relevant health and social care and to provide information and support to others when required.

Key learning features:

• Includes a range of interactive activities to encourage the reader to take stock and carry out activities pertinent to the chapter
• The key pedagogical feature will centre around a fictitious family; The use of the family will be to provide a basis to the various chapters and assessment will focus on the family or individual needs of a family member
• Each chapter begins with an aim and learning outcomes to enable the reader to contextualise and focus on the chapter content and the relevance to NMC proficiencies.
• Chapters end with an explicit conclusion, in the form of "putting it all together"
• Resource links are provided using electronic links or reference to appropriate literature that will help the reader seek further support and access additional information should this be required.