An accessible textbook to help students develop their study skills.
Study Skills is an accessible textbook for nursing, health and social care students seeking to improve their study skills, develop their resilience, enhance their employability and cultivate a love of lifelong learning.

Through clear explanations, helpful hints, activities and quizzes, the book will help you to develop your study skills for both your studies and future career. You will learn:

About the authors; Introduction

1. Skills for the resilient learner
Peggy Murphy and Marjorie Ghisoni
     1.1 Introduction
     1.2 Five ways (5rs) to develop resilience for health and wellbeing
     1.3 Developing resilience in everyday life
     1.4 Developing resilience for lifelong learning
     1.5 Developing resilience for employability
     1.6 Conclusion

2. Effective time management
Peggy Murphy
     2.1 Introduction
     2.2 Strategies to combat time-wasters
     2.3 Suggested study toolkit
     2.4 Conclusion

3. Reading and note-taking skills
Marjorie Ghisoni
     3.1 Finding the right information
     3.2 Making concise notes
     3.3 Writing a literature review
     3.4 Conclusion

4. Skills for literature searching
Seren Roberts
     4.1 Introduction
     4.2 Starting your literature search
     4.3 What is literature?
     4.4 Developing a systematic approach to literature reviewing
     4.5 Conclusion

5. Skills for critical thinking
Tracy Ross
     5.1 Introduction
     5.2 What is critical thinking?
     5.3 How to think critically: a six-stage process
     5.4 How does critical thinking improve resilience?
     5.5 How does critical thinking improve employability?
     5.6 Conclusion

6. Writing essays and reports
Marjorie Ghisoni
     6.1 Introduction
     6.2 Begin at the beginning
     6.3 Make a plan
     6.4 Referencing from journals and books
     6.5 Organising and composing your work
     6.6 Engineering your work and writing reports
     6.7 Spelling and structure
     6.8 Conclusion

7. Referencing skills
Helen Thomas, Jacqui Maung, Ella Turner and Paul Verlander
     7.1 Referencing and academic integrity
     7.2 Plagiarism
     7.3 Developing a rigorous approach to referencing
     7.4 Referencing
     7.5 Conclusion

8. Feedback
Peggy Murphy and Craig Morley
     8.1 Introduction
     8.2 The purpose of feedback
     8.3 Feedback mindset
     8.4 Feed-forward
     8.5 Action-planning
     8.6 Marking rubrics
     8.7 What to do after you receive feedback
     8.8 Conclusion

9. Reflective writing skills
Marjorie Ghisoni
     9.1 Introduction
     9.2 Models of reflective practice
     9.3 Should we follow our gut instinct?
     9.4 Keeping a reflective journal
     9.5 Developing reflective resilience in our everyday practice
     9.6 Reflective writing, self-compassion and student resilience
     9.7 Reflective writing and lifelong learning
     9.8 Professional requirements for reflective practice and lifelong learning
     9.9 Reflective writing for employability
     9.10 Conclusion

10. Skills for teamworking
Liz Lefroy
     10.1 Introduction
     10.2 What is a team?
     10.3 Teamwork in time of change
     10.4 Team role theory
     10.5 The development of groups and teams
     10.6 Communication and sustainable teamwork
     10.7 Dealing with conflict
     10.8 Resilience
     10.9 Conclusion

11. Skills for presentations and public speaking
Paul Jeorrett
     11.1 Introduction
     11.2 The 3 Ps: preparation, planning, practice
     11.3 Delivering the presentation
     11.4 Conclusion

12. Skills for employability in health and social care
Marjorie Ghisoni
     12.1 Introduction
     12.2 Developing employability skills using your lifelong learning skills
     12.3 Key lifelong learning skills for employability
     12.4 Employability skills and professional practice
     12.5 Developing resilience skills to improve your employability
     12.6 Developing transferable skills for employability
     12.7 Conclusion

13. Skills for the developing professional
Marjorie Ghisoni
     13.1 Introduction
     13.2 Developing resilience as a professional
     13.3 Developing employability skills in professional practice
     13.4 Developing lifelong learning skills as a professional
     13.4 Conclusion

14. Lifelong learning skills: future-proof your learning
Peggy Murphy
     14.1 What is lifelong learning?
     14.2 Where does resilience fit into LLL?
     14.3 Employability and lifelong learning skills
     14.4 Future-proofing learning to maintain professional standards
     14.5 Future-proofing learning to maintain professional registration
     14.6 Combining reflective practice with a growth mindset
     14.7 Conclusion

Answers to chapter quizzes; Index