Study Skills for Nursing and Healthcare Students

Study Skills for Nursing and Healthcare Students by Cowen, Michelle. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780273724599.

Study Skills for Nursing & Healthcare Students has been developed specifically to provide tried & tested guidance on the most important academic and study skills that students require throughout their time at university and beyond. Study Skills for Nursing & Healthcare Students covers all of the key skills areas that will have the most impact on a students performance performance, including: · Effectively managing academic study, practice based experiences and personal commitments · Understanding evidence based practice · Managing academic study, practice based experiences and personal commitments · Personal Development Planning · Learning from practice placements & reflective practice · Getting the most out of lectures and tutorials · Improving your revision skills and exam performance · Mastering critical thinking, argument and analysis · Developing successful reading and note-taking strategies · Essay and report planning and refletive writing techniques · Working in groups and effective presentation of assignments and projects Real-life examples, self-assessment exercises and end-of-chapter quizzes will help students to assess their current skills base, develop them further and learn how to apply them to work and study.