'...ideal both for students undertaking pre-registration training and for those following postbasic diploma and degree courses ...also a useful reference text for nurse teachers' (Review of 1st edition: Nursing Times) This successful textbook has been updated to reflect the continuing changes within nursing and to take account of recent research. However, the qualities that made the first edition so popular - readability, clarity, range and depth, academic underpinning, worked examples and exercises - have all been retained.

Author Biography

Author Paul Morrison: Paul Morrison has a long-standing interest in the education of health professionals and has worked in health care and university settings in Ireland, the UK and Australia. He is a registered nurse and a registered psychologist with an established track record of applied research and is widely published. A major focus of his research over the years has been the evaluation of services for consumers. More recently he has published a number of papers in the area of health promotion. Paul also works as a psychologist in private practice in Canberra.