Becoming a Registered Nurse: Making the Transition to Practice

This book is part of the Transforming Nursing Practice series, written specifically to support nursing students on pre-registration degree-level programmes.

In your final year as a nursing students, it is natural to feel nervous about making the transition to registered nurse. This book helps you prepare for your first nursing role and uses 'real life' scenarios to help you consolidate your skills ready for practice. It guides you through the final stages of your nursing programme with its increased demands and helps you with common areas of concerns as a new nurse. Topics covered include coping with stress and anxiety, becoming an independent practitioner, dealing with change, delegating and managing junior staff, handling risky situations, managing competing demands and developing your career.

Key Features:

Core reading for 'transition to practice' modules on pre-registration nursing programmes, and to support you in your first role

Helps you develop problem solving skills through interactive scenarios

Reflective activities help you to become an independent learner and decision-maker

Supports you in meeting the NMC requirements for registration

Transforming Nursing Practice is the first series of books designed to help students meet the requirements of the NMC Standards and Essential Skills Clusters for the new degree programmes. Each book addresses a core topic, and together they cover the generic knowledge required for all fields of practice. Accessible and challenging, Transforming Nursing Practice helps nursing students prepare for the demands of future healthcare delivery.

Series editors: Dr Shirley Bach, Head of the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Brighton and Dr. Mooi Standing, Independent Academic Consultant at national and international level, and an accredited Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) reviewer.