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.
