Nursing and Multi-Professional Practice
- Janet McCray - University of Chichester, UK
This book offers nursing students an introduction to - and foundation in - multi-professional practice. It explores the reasons behind the changing face and redesign of many services in health and social care, and it looks at how this affects the readers own role in the emerging multi-professional partnerships and teams.
Features of the book include:
o it provides a framework for developing the knowledge and practice skills needed for effective collaborative working
o it contains examples drawn from acute medicine, primary care, mental-health services, learning disability nursing, child and family social care, and community nursing
o it is embedded in real-life practice and brings together examples from traditional and more innovative practice settings
o it offers tips for successful teamworking and reflects upon likely challenges
o the chapters are supported by a range of interactive study activities linked to the student nurse's practice placement experiences.
Nursing and Multi-professional Practice will help students to develop the skills for effective collaboration. It has been designed to map onto the pre-registration curriculum and will be invaluable reading for all nursing students, as well as professionals and trainees working at the interface of health and social care.
Perfect for our interprofessional modules
I teach on the Foundation Degree in Healthcare Practice, this book is an excellent resource for the Health and Social Care Module and Care Process Module. It has useful guided study on each chapter.
If the course would be for only nurses this would be a good book. BUt this is not the case in my course
A very useful text which highlights the importance of the multi-disciplinary team approach to care which is essential in today's nursing climate.
Easy to use relevant to practice and promotes reflective learning
This text offers students and qualified nurses alike an overview of the concepts related to multi-professional practice. Given the on-going impetus of this subject area, this book is a timely addition.
This is a fantastic book, which could be used as a reference book.
A good overview of issues concerning multi-professional pratice.
This will be a helpful reminder of the diverse nature of todays health care setting. It reinforces the range and roles of all those involved in the healthcare MDT and encourages a specific consideration of that and how it can be used to help patients. As it covers acute and primary care as well as children and mental health this will have something to offer to all my students. The guided study boxes will help reinforce the ideas and information presented.
This book is set out in manageable sections. The content has a high focus on the impact of multi-professional working from a nursing point of view. There is reference to both adult and children's services and the different aspects of nursing. It is realistic and does relate to current practice and policy.