Table of contents
1: Nursing today and tomorrow
2: Principles of professional practice
3: Maintaining professional standards
4: Ethical dimensions of practice
5: Nurse-Patient relationships
6: Assessment: the foundations of good practice
7: Evidence-based practice
8: Care delivery: the needs of children
9: Care delivery: the needs of young people
10: Care delivery: the needs of the mature adult
11: Care delivery: the needs of older people
12: A relationship-centred approach to
working with older people and their families
13: Coping with expected and unexpected death

14: Quality in health care
15: Managing risk in a health care organization
16: Working within a health care team
17: Supporting practitioners in giving high quality care
18: Maintaining a licence to practise: your career as a professional nurse
19: Consultancy: the future for nursing roles?

Appendices
Appendix 1. Code of professional conduct
Appendix 2. Requirements for pre-registration nursing programmes
Appendix 3. Useful addresses
References
Further Reading
Index