Advanced Practice in Healthcare: Dynamic Developments in Nursing and Allied Health Professions (Advanced Healthcare Practice)

by Chris Inman (Editor), Chris Inman (Editor), Paula McGee (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  2019

  $48.25

  The definitive resource for advanced practice within nursing and the allied health professions--revised, expanded, and updated throughout.

  Advanced practice is an established and continuously evolving part of healthcare workforces around the world as a level of practice beyond initial registration. Advanced practitioners are equipped to improve health, prevent disease, and provide treatment and care for patients in a diverse range of settings.

  This comprehensively revised fourth edition emphasises the importance of practice in advanced healthcare, presenting a critical examination of advanced practice roles in nursing and allied health professions through a series of learning features designed to facilitate the development of vital knowledge and skills.

  Advanced Practice in Healthcare presents:

  • International developments in advanced practice as a global response to the need to modernise services, reduce costs and increase access to healthcare services
  • Country-specific examples of advanced practitioners' roles in delivering patient care in diverse settings
  • The impact of advanced practice in nursing and the allied health professions
  • Controversial issues including prescribing, regulation and credentialing, and the interface with medical practice
  • Ethical and legal dimensions of advanced practice
  • The preparation of advanced practitioners

  Advanced Practice in Healthcare is an essential resource for all students, practitioners, managers and researchers of advanced practice in healthcare.