• Chapter 1: What is nursing and what is a nurse?

• Chapter 2: Being a nursing student

• Chapter 3: Core academic skills

• Chapter 4: Academic writing and assessment skills

• Chapter 6: Law

• Chapter 7: Accountability and professionalism

• Chapter 8: Resilience

• Chapter 9: The role of the student nurse in effecting change

• Chapter 10: Delivering effective care

• Chapter 12: Values-based, person- or family-centred care

• Chapter 13: Patient, service user, family and carer perspectives

• Chapter 14: Assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation (APIE)

• Chapter 15: Core communication skills

• Chapter 17: Ensuring quality and effective management of risk

• Chapter 20: Safeguarding

• Chapter 24: Clinical measurement

• Chapter 25: Pain Management

• Chapter 26: Skin integrity

• Chapter 27: Safe handling of people

• Chapter 28: Emergency care

• Chapter 31: Assisting patients with their elimination needs

• Chapter 32: Assisting patients with their hygiene needs

• Chapter 33: Last offices

• Chapter 35: Introduction to interprofessional working

• Chapter 36: Introduction to the psychological context of nursing

• Chapter 37: Introduction to the sociological context of nursing

• Chapter 40: Introduction to the global context of nursing