This comprehensive and practical guide explores professional values in nursing, helping you to develop safe, compassionate, person-centred and evidence-based nursing practice.

This practical guide explores professional values in nursing, helping readers develop safe, compassionate, dignified, person-centred and evidence-based nursing practice. It discusses the fundamental values of equality, dignity and caring, with chapters on person-centred and holistic nursing care, working in partnership with families and the healthcare team, vulnerability and safeguarding, challenging poor practice and promoting best practice. The chapters link to the Professional Values domain in the NMC Standards for pre-registration nursing education. The accessible style of the text features learning outcomes, key points, summary boxes, case studies, reflection points and questions with more material on a supplemental website.

"?meets the needs of novice nurses who need to be guided through the often puzzling topic of professional values. ?It has great potential to engage student nurses and new nurses on a topic that may not otherwise hold their interest as much as other areas of nursing. It may well become a book that they keep on their shelves for many years."-Martha Scheckel, PhD, RN, Winona State University, Minnesota, USA