The advanced practitioner : a framework for clinical practice / [edited by] Ian Peate, Sadie Diamond-Fox, Barry Hill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Advanced Clinical Practice -- The Advanced Clinical Practice Curriculum -- Scope of Practice and the Management of Patient Care -- Principles of Physiology for Advanced Practice -- Principles of Pathophysiology -- Principles of Pharmacology -- Supplementary and Independent Prescribing -- Core Procedural Skills -- Clinical History Taking and Physical Examination -- Clinical Decision Making and Diagnostic Reasoning -- Diagnostic Interpretation -- Public Health; Prevention, Promotion and Empowerment -- Managing Complexity -- Frailty: principles of rehabilitation and reablement, palliative care and organ donation. -- Mental Health, Intellectual Disability and Autism -- Education and Learning -- The Advanced Practitioner as Educator -- Research Principles -- Leading Research in Advanced Practice -- Innovations in Practice -- Professional Development and Transition.

"The Advanced Practitioner: A Framework for Practice is the first of its kind. It provides a multi-professional resource that uses the four pillars underpinning advanced clinical practice as a framework: clinical practice, leadership and management, research and education. The text offers essential reading that is related to contemporary advanced clinical practice topics. The Advanced Practitioner: A Framework for Practice has been written primarily for the trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner. Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) come from a range of professional backgrounds including physiotherapy, pharmacy, paramedics, occupational therapy and nursing, practicing across the age continuum and in a variety of spheres of practice, at the top of their licence. The focus of this text is on the adult person"-- Provided by publisher.