This highly successful comprehensive core textbook has undergone a thorough review to ensure that it maintains its reputation as one of the most popular core textbooks for pre-registration nursing students. All the chapters have been updated and five new chapters have been introduced, including a key chapter on nursing, integrating scientific approaches to nursing, family centred care, spiritual aspects of nursing and multicultural care. Several chapters have been completely rewritten by new contributors to reflect the changing emphasis and importance of these areas in modern health care.



Nursing Practice and Health Care continues to be an invaluable resource for both the common foundation programme and the Adult Nursing Branch at both diploma and degree level, and as such it incorporates all the key issues and concepts relevant for today's nurses. This book aims to stimulate students to apply their knowledge and skills of nursing in a rapidly changing health and social care context and to promote the pursuit of excellence through reflective practice.