Advanced Clinical Practice in Healthcare: Changing and Evolving Clinical Roles for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals

This book outlines the key components of advanced clinical practice, with new and expanded practice elements added to this fully updated second edition.It discusses vital issues for providing effective evidence-based healthcare, emphasising the role that advanced practice has to play in contemporary healthcare provision.Throughout the book, new ways of thinking and implementing changes in relation to practice, education and research are described.Divided into three sections with the addition of a newly revised introduction and a review of the evolution of advanced practice, this book covers:The provision of guidance on the development and implementation of clinical skills, including consultation, clinical decision making, holistic care and the role of care planning in advanced practice. The explanation of management skills and how to manage in this changing healthcare environment.It also explains how to negotiate and monitor the complexities of the present and changing healthcare syste