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.

About the Author

Paula McGee is Professor Emerita of Nursing, Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK.

Chris Inman is Senior Lecturer and former long-standing Programme Director, Masters in Advanced Practice, Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK and a committee member of the Association of the Advanced Practice Educators, UK.

Reviews

'Besides its efficient use of international spheres to paint a complete (and varied) picture of the ACP role, another of this book's strengths is the academic rigour with which it is presented. Likely readers of this volume will be healthcare practitioners thoroughly involved in research, education and leadership (besides clinical expertise). They will find the book both extremely informative, as it is pitched at the right level of their academic maturity and critical reasoning. Furthermore, those studying to become ACPs will find the book infused with the professional discourse that is crucial to embody as part of developing into a cross-boundary role.' - Journal of Perioperative Practice

Book Information
ISBN 9781119439097
Author Paula McGee
Format Paperback
Page Count 306
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 522g
Dimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 15mm