Paula McGee - Böcker

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 servicesCountry-specific examples of advanced practitioners’ roles in delivering patient care in diverse settingsThe impact of advanced practice in nursing and the allied health professionsControversial issues including prescribing, regulation and credentialing, and the interface with medical practiceEthical and legal dimensions of advanced practiceThe preparation of advanced practitionersAdvanced Practice in Healthcare is an essential resource for all students, practitioners, managers and researchers of advanced practice in healthcare.

Advanced Practice in Nursing and the Allied Health Professions enables nurses and members of allied health professions to effectively diagnose and treat patients, in a wide variety of settings. It is especially relevant in regions where access to other health providers is limited. This new, completely revised, third edition shows how advanced practice continues to develop in response to the impact of health service reforms, the introduction of health policies aimed at developing a patient-led service based in primary care and changes in working conditions. Advanced Practice in Nursing and the Allied Health Professions presents an examination of the potential for advanced practitioners, at all levels, to have a significant effect on the health of the population and provide holistic care for the sick. Practice is identified as the central and most important feature of the advanced role in nursing and allied health professions.Advanced Practice in Nursing and the Allied Health Professions also considers: The development of advanced practice in nursing and the allied health professions and the implications for future health and social care services;Challenging professional boundaries that hinder the provision of care and pioneering innovation within a diverse society;The relationship between health policy and service reforms, current and future advanced roles;International developments in advanced practice;Leadership, management in relation to advanced roles;The responsibilities of advanced practitioners in meeting healthcare needs in a diverse society;Educating advanced practitioners and tracking their career development;The future possibilities for advanced practice and an agenda for research.