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Developing New Clinical Roles: A Guide for Health Professionals
Contributor(s): Humphris, Debra (Author), Masterson, Abigail (Author)
ISBN: 0443070717     ISBN-13: 9780443070716
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
OUR PRICE:   $54.40  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: October 2000
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BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Health Care Delivery
- Medical | Nursing - Management & Leadership
Dewey: 610.69
Physical Information: 224 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Throughout the health care system, the traditional boundaries between professional groups are becoming increasingly blurred in response to local service needs and national policy objectives. New clinical roles are developing and nurses and other health professionals are finding opportunities to review and reconfigure their roles in response to changing health care needs and national policy imperatives. This book combines a comprehensive and thought provoking overview of the key issues and emerging challenges with practical suggestions for promoting appropriate and sustainable role development. Drawing on a range of contributors who reflect the multi-disciplinary context of new role development in healthcare, this book provides an essential source of information and ideas for practitioners, researchers, managers and policy makers.
  • Reflects the multi-disciplinary context of role development includes examples and contributions from physiotherapists, OTs, pharmacists and doctors as well as nurses
  • Emphasises the importance of patient-led development of roles
  • Focuseson the significance of education and research
  • Puts role development within the context of health services as a whole
  • Includes case studies and examples
  • Combines policy context with practical advice on how to develop new clinical roles