Developing New Clinical Roles
A Guide for Health Professionals

Debra Humphris (Author), Abigail Masterson (Author)

9780443070716, Elsevier Health Sciences

Paperback / softback, published 23 October 2000

224 pages, 15 ills.
27 x 18 x 1.5 cm, 0.37 kg

"This book will be invaluable for nurses wishing to undertake new roles, educationalists, senior nurses and managers, as well as those in human resources departments or involved in workforce planning." Brendan Docherty, Deputy Editor, Professional Nurse

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 grew out of the editors involvement in the UKCCs work on the regulation of specialist, advanced and higher level practice and Department of Health research on new role developments and the impact of the `New Dealreduction in junior doctors hours. It combines a comprehensive and thought provoking overview of the key issues and emerging challenges with practical suggestions for promoting appropriate and sustainable role development.

Introduction. New role developments in context. The changing face of primary care: communitypharmacy
Research, evaluation and evidence-based practice
Freedom to learn freedom to be: learning, reflecting and supporting in practice
Managing new roles within the service
An invisible revolution within the clinical team
new role development for the professions allied to medicine
The consumer perspective
A medical perspective
Evaluating new role development
New role development: towards a strategic approach

Subject Areas: Nursing [MQC]