Advanced Practice in Healthcare

by McGee, Paula
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ISBN: 9781119439097
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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.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: McGee, Paula
  • ISBN: 9781119439097
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.90 x 0.60
  • Number Of Pages: 306
  • Publication Year: 2019

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