Advanced Practice in Healthcare Dynamic Developments in Nursing and Allied Health Professions |
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| Editor:
| McGee, Paula
Inman, Chris |
| Series title: | Advanced Healthcare Practice Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-119-43909-7 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2019 |
| Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $58.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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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.