Skills in Clinical Nursing, 1st Edition

A practical approach to grow confidence and competence in Clinical practice! Berman, Skills in Clinical Nursing is a visual Australian resource to support nurses to achieve competency in the most relevant skills performed in clinical practice, aligned to the NMBA standards for professional practice. The first Australian edition of Skills in Clinical Nursing is a definitive resource that has been designed as a practical and easy-to-navigate reference for both the classroom and clinical practice settings. This text includes 95 of the most important skills performed by nursing students and graduates, organised from simple to complex and written to reflect current evidence-based practice guidelines. View the online brochure

TRACY LEVETT-JONES RN, PhD, MEd & Work, BN, DipAppSc (Nursing)

Professor Tracy Levett-Jones is the Deputy Head of School (Teaching and Learning), School of Nursing and Midwifery and the Director of the Research Centre for Health Professional Education at the University of Newcastle. Her research interests include: clinical reasoning, interprofessional education, empathy, belongingness, cultural competence, simulation and patient safety. Tracy has authored ten books, the most recent being Clinical Reasoning: Learning to Think Like a Nurse and Critical Conversations for Patient Safety; as well as over 150 book chapters, reports and peer reviewed journal articles. Tracy has been the recipient of nine research awards and ten teaching awards including an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Award for Teaching Excellence (2010); a NSW Minister for Education and Training Quality Teaching Award (2007); and a Pearson/Australian Nurse Teacher Society Nurse Educator of the Year Award (2011). She has been awarded nearly two million dollars in grant funding and has led and been involved in a number of Category 1 funded projects.

TRISH BURTON PhD, MEd, BAppSc(Nurse Education), BSc, DipAppSc(Nursing), RN

Trish Burton is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing, in the College of Health and Biomedicine, at Victoria University. Her nursing background is in adult intensive care, infectious diseases and emergency nursing. In the nurse academic role, Trish has held many course coordination roles at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She has an extensive curriculum development background, and teaches acute care, pharmacology, research and professional practice issues. Trish has been an author for fundamentals of nursing, medical surgical nursing and health assessment texts. She has enjoyed the challenge of mapping national competency standards for the registered nurse in nursing texts and is currently mapping the NMBA Registered nurse standards for practice for publication. Trish’s current research interest is in nurse-led cardiovascular clinics in the general practice setting.

NICHOLE HARVEY PhD, MNst, GCertEd(Tertiary Teaching), BN, CritCareCert, RN, RM

Nikki has been a Registered Nurse since 1988 and a Registered Midwife since 1995. Clinically, she has considerable experience in emergency and trauma nursing, having worked in rural and metropolitan departments. Between the years 1999 and 2010 Nikki worked for the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Nutrition at James Cook University. She was involved in the development of both undergraduate and postgraduate nursing and midwifery curricula and the teaching of student nurses and midwives. In August 2011, Nikki was appointed as a Senior Lecturer, Clinical Skills Unit, for the College of Medicine & Dentistry, James Cook University. Her current position is the Years 1-3 Clinical Skills Curriculum Coordinator and the Year 3 Clinical Skills Coordinator for medical students enrolled in the MBBS course. Nikki is a group member recipient of two James Cook University Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2013 and 2015) and a group member recipient of an Australian Award for University Teaching, Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) in 2013. Nikki’s research interests include: midwifery; rural and remote health and education; evaluation of clinical skills teaching and simulation; interprofessional health education; and emergency nursing/care. Nikki is a co-author of the Kozier and Erb Fundamentals of Nursing textbook and is also a member of a national Clinical Reference Group for the review of the Patient Blood Management Guideline concerning Critical Bleeding and Massive Transfusions. Nikki represents both the Australian College of Nursing and the Australian College of Midwifery in her role on this Clinical Reference Group. Nikki is passionate a

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