Study Skills for Nursing and Healthcare Students

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 student's 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.