Clinical Psychomotor Skills

Clinical Psychomotor Skills: Assessment Tools for Nurses offers a unique blend of solid theoretical knowledge, linking it to clinical practice.

The combined theory and workbook text covers the key clinical skills and knowledge that nursing students need, facilitating their mastery of provable competencies that fulfil the required standards. This edition uses the 5-point (Bondy) Assessment Scales, with an alternative 3-point assessment available in the instructor resources.

The latest evidence-based material from nursing and associated literature – and reflecting The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia’s Registered Nurse Standards for Practice – make this the essential guide for students of registered nursing programs. Resources include the highly regarded clinical skills videos, and revision quizzes.

About the Authors

Joanne Tollefson earned her RN certification in Canada and continued her studies throughout her career. She completed a Bachelor of General Studies from a Canadian University, and a Master of Tropical Medicine, then a PhD, from James Cook University in northern Queensland. An experienced clinician (15 years of rural nursing, women’s health, medical, surgical and mental health care) in Canada, Australia and Nigeria, she turned to education and taught in hospital and tertiary courses for the next 30 years in all capacities, from clinical facilitator to Principal Nurse Educator in hospital programs, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at James Cook University. She was privileged to work with Fijian nurses at the Fiji School of Nursing to create an international-level nursing curriculum for the nurses of the South Pacific. She has written a well-accepted clinical psychomotor skills text, now in its seventh edition.

Joanne has been honoured with two National Awards for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (Carrick Award, 2007; Australian Teaching and Learning Council Award, 2008). She is now retired from formal teaching but continues to engage in nursing via researching, writing and editing nursing texts.

Elspeth Hillman is a lecturer and Academic Lead: Professional Practice in nursing at James Cook University, with an interest in nursing education research. She has extensive experience in several Australian states in a range of clinical situations from rural to critical care nursing. Her experience includes facilitation of both undergraduate nursing students in various clinical facilities, and of postgraduate nursing students in high-dependency units.