This title is now available under ISBN 9780702031526.

The most comprehensive UK Adult Nursing core text, now in its fourth edition, for the next generation of nurses…

This best-selling textbook has been fully revised by a team of experienced nurses for nurses focusing on the issues that are important to them. It provides a comprehensive source of the knowledge and skills required for competent, evidence-based nursing practice. High quality nursing care is patient-centred, knowledgeable and based on the best available evidence. This book will help you to achieve that.

Printed book plus Pageburst™ access – you will receive a printed book and access to the complete book content electronically. Pageburst™ enhances learning by not only bringing world class content to your fingertips but also letting you add to it, annotate it, and categorize it all in a way that suits you. Pageburst™ frees you to spend more time learning and less time searching.

Key nursing issues summarise each chapter and enable you to check your understanding

Interactive Reflection and Evidence-based practice boxes help make links between theory and practice

A Reflection and Learning feature in each chapter to help you consider your learning and professional development and how you can use it to enhance patient/client care

An exciting companion website including:

Self-test quiz questions with full explanations with the answers

Critical-thinking questions with outline answers

Full colour photographs, diagrams, tables and care plans

Hyper-linked references

All the images from the book