Advanced Practice in Healthcare

<p><b>The definitive resource for advanced practice within nursing and the allied health professions—revised, expanded, and updated throughout.</b></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><i>Advanced Practice in Healthcare</i> presents:</p> <ul> <li>International developments in advanced practice as a global response to the need to modernise services, reduce costs and increase access to healthcare services</li> <li>Country-specific examples of advanced practitioners’ roles in delivering patient care in diverse settings</li> <li>The impact of advanced practice in nursing and the allied health professions</li> <li>Controversial issues including prescribing, regulation and credentialing, and the interface with medical practice</li> <li>Ethical and legal dimensions of advanced practice</li> <li>The preparation of advanced practitioners</li> </ul> <p><i>Advanced Practice in Healthcare</i> is an essential resource for all students, practitioners, managers and researchers of advanced practice in healthcare.</p>