Circulated in February 2011 Oxford’s Nursing e-newsletter includes information on new titles and developments, perspectives from authors, and recent highlights.
This issue includes:
Editorial: a welcome from Geraldine, our senior commissioning editor
Geraldine discusses what’s new for 2011, how OUP’s publishing is catering for the NMC developments, and more.
NETworking (in 2010): did you see us there?
Highlights from the conference in September
Prepare for Practice... are your students prepared?
Learning to be a nurse requires students to develop a set of skills and a knowledge base which will enable them to make the transition from learner to qualified nurse. The series of Prepare for Practice books published by OUP has set out to do just that. Read more from series editor Karen Holland, editor of Nurse Education in Practice and author of several key textbooks
Student health check - Endacott, Jevon and Cooper: Clinical Nursing Skills
We asked two of our nursing student panel members to give us their thoughts on our nursing publishing, starting with Clinical Nursing Skills: Core and Advanced
Resourceful
Looking for online resources to support your textbook? You've come to the right place
Recently reviewed
Snapshot feedback on two nursing textbooks
Your newsletter, your input
We’d like to make these newsletters relevant and interesting to you. If you have feedback on the content of this newsletter, or have ideas and suggestions for future ones please email clare.weaver@oup.com
Editorial: a welcome from Geraldine, Senior Commissioning Editor, Natural, Health and Clinical Sciences
My name is Geraldine, I’m the senior editor responsible for our nursing textbook publishing programme here at Oxford. I really hope that you have enjoyed the textbooks which our incredibly talented and passionate authors have produced so far, and that our new publishing will continue to support, educate and inspire you.
As we move into 2011, these are exciting times in nursing education and publishing and I’d like to share some highlights and priorities with you.
Following the publication of the new NMC standards for pre-registration review in September 2010, we know nursing academics are very busy rewriting and revalidating curricula. Here too, we are revising our manuscripts and materials to ensure our textbooks and online resources can help you to deliver the new programme. Once the dust settles, we would love to find out more about your new modules and courses so we can be sure our future publishing plans will meet your needs going forward. If you’d like to be involved in our research or you would like to discuss a new publishing idea, please contact me at geraldine.jeffers@oup.com
Over the next few weeks, our production and web teams will put the finishing touches to our wonderful new nursing textbooks for 2011 which will address public health, older people, communication skills and the transition to professional practice.
Each provides an excellent overview of their subject informed by contemporary literature alongside student friendly, practical guidance and each has been rigorously reviewed by the peer review process employed here at Oxford University Press where academics, practitioners and students anonymously provide constructive feedback. At OUP our publishing is undertaken in collaboration with nursing students who don’t just shape the content, but the design and cover images too – my favourite new cover this season is for Nursing Care of Older People by Hindle and Coates.
In 2009, we launched our very first texts and over the coming year we’ll continue to bring you interesting, innovative and authoritative textbooks to support lecturers and students alike. We hope that you’ll continue to support our authors and publishing with your reading, reviewing and interest.
With best wishes for an enjoyable 2011.
Geraldine Jeffers
Senior Commissioning Editor, Natural, Health and Clinical Sciences
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NETworking (in 2010): did you see us there?
We were at the fantastic Nursing Education Today conference in September, and had the chance to meet many of you. We also launched our Prepare for Practice series where many of you helped celebrate in style with fizz and cake - see the pic below.
If we missed you at the conference, not to worry - click on the links for more information on the Prepare for Practice series, and see the full range of our nursing textbooks.
Conferences continue to be an important part of our marketing – we plan on having a presence at nursing conferences this year but do let us know if you are hosting events at your university.
The NET conference also provided a useful opportunity to showcase our clinical skills cluster of books for pre-reg nursing students. Clinical Skills in Children’s Nursing by Imelda Coyne, Fiona Timmins and Freda Neill is our first undergraduate nursing textbook designed specifically for the children’s nursing field. It also completes our skills cluster by bringing the total number of books to four:
The publication of Clinical Skills in Children’s Nursing was celebrated at an event organised by the Trinity College Dublin based author team - see picture below!
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Prepare for Practice - we hear from series editor, Karen Holland
Learning to be a nurse requires students to develop a set of skills and a knowledge base which will enable them to make the transition from learner to qualified nurse. This learning experience entails learning in ‘two worlds’, that of the university and that of the clinical environment. It is important that the learning that takes place in one is integrated with the learning in the other. The series of Prepare for Practice books published by OUP has set out to do just that.
These ‘two worlds’ require that students learn two sets of skills in order to qualify as a nurse and be ready to take on further sets of skills in whatever nursing environment they are employed in. The skills which will be a core part of this series are numerous, and central to them is that of ‘coping with the unknown’. For example, facing a new environment each time they start a new clinical placement, communicating with patients and a large number of health and social care professionals, dealing with difficult and often complex situations and sometimes stressful clinical experiences. In the university there are also situations which may be unknown, such as learning new study skills, working with others, searching and finding information, and managing workloads. It is every student’s goal to complete their course with the required foundation for the future and it is the essential goal of the Prepare for Practice series to enable the student to develop skills for a successful learning and nursing experience.
The central ethos to all the books therefore is to facilitate and enhance the student learning experience and develop their skills, through engaging with a variety of reflective accounts, exercises and web-based resources
Series editor: Karen Holland, Associate Professor of Nursing, Salford University
Published:
Nursing: Study and Placement Learning Skills edited by Sue Hart
Nursing: Evidence-Based Practice Skills by Karen Holland and Colin Rees
Forthcoming for February:
Nursing: Communication Skills in Practice edited by Lucy Webb
Nursing: Transition to Professional Practice edited by Rob Burton and Graham Ormrod
Books in the Prepare for Practice series are available on inspection to nursing academics who teach a course on which they might become the recommended text. Visit the Prepare for Practice series page for more information, sample material and to order your inspection copy. The titles in the series are fully supported with online teaching and learning materials, visit the site to see what is available.
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Student health check - Endacott, Jevon and Cooper: Clinical Nursing Skills
Published 2009, £28.99
"I think that Clinical Nursing Skills: Core and Advanced is a comprehensive and purposeful book that would be extremely useful for student nurses in their second and final years, and for recently qualified nurses in most areas of practice. I was impressed by the clear way that the rationale and background to each skill was introduced which really helped me to understand the ‘why’ of the skill and well as the ‘how’. I liked the inclusion of an ongoing theme of recognising deteriorating patients and consideration of holistic assessment of family and carer inclusion and patient reassurance and education. I would be very happy to recommend this text to other student nurses and I think it represents value for money because you would not need to buy other clinical skills texts."
- Amy Grey, Student, University of Brighton
"Overall, I have found this book very interesting to read and useful both for the clinical skills modules and in clinical practice. It is easy to read and well set out. It has also been good to link physiology and pathophysiology theory to practice situations by providing a basic overview of body systems. I feel it has been written at exactly the right level for me. I also liked the photos and diagrams. It also feels like it has been written by people with a lot of nursing experience in practice." - Sarah Louise Smith, Student, University of Plymouth
Your feedback is important too. Please remember to complete a comment card each time you receive an inspection copy.
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Many of our nursing textbooks are accompanied by Online Resource Centres – additional online materials specifically designed to support learning and teaching. Take a look now at the range of videos that support Fundamentals of Mental Health Nursing.
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Recently reviewed
I thoroughly enjoyed reviewing this book as I continually saw its potential to meet a need for the students which has not, in my opinion, been met by other texts. I also see it as having potential for people who are considering a career in mental health nursing and seeking information on what this might entail. - Gemma Stacey, University of Nottingham in Nursing Education in Practice
Order an inspection copy here
One of the key strengths of this book is the consistency of values which underpins each chapter, which helps provide both a practical and inspirational overview of a ‘positive modern profession’ - Anne Felton, University of Nottingham in Nursing Education in Practice
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