Advanced Practice in Healthcare (PDF)

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.