This is the third edition of the highly successful textbook, Developing Practical Nursing Skills, which has been revised specifically for nursing and health care students working with adult patients, offering a more comprehensive guide that will last throughout initial training and beyond.

Maintaining the practical and easy-to-use style of the previous edition, the text now focuses on adults with physical health needs across a range of settings. Each chapter includes scenarios from adult physical health, mental health and learning disability care settings, which are followed by reflective activities and learning outcomes to help the reader relate theory to practice.

This new edition includes additional skills, and has been fully updated with new research and health policies, including the NMC Essential Skills Clusters.

This interactive aid to learning is essential reading for all pre-registration nurses on the common foundation programme and adult, mental health and learning disabilities branches, as well as health care assistants studying NVQ 2/3 in Care, and students on assistant healthcare practitioner foundation degrees. It is also a useful reference for qualified nurses and all those involved in the teaching of practical nursing skills.

This companion website contains the following additional resources, accessible by purchasers of the book:

• an image bank containing additional images as well as all of the figures from the book to enhance your lectures and presentations
• PowerPoint presentations for each chapter, which can be used and adapted for teaching or revision
• interactive MCQ tests
• a list of useful web links