Synopses & Reviews
This Reader lays solid foundations for continuing professional development in the rapidly changing world of health and social care.
A series of ley articles explores current challenges facing practitioners across a broad spectrum of the caring professions, including:
- the need for accountability to service users, funders of services and local communities
- the required skills for teamwork and collaboration, anti-discriminatory practice and patient and client participation
- ethical dilemmas of working in conditions of resource constraint and engaging in questions of quality and performance review.
A thorough and critical analysis of these increasingly important themes, this book covers organizational issues, the social and economic context of policy, and the need for reflective practice. The chapters illustrate the similarities and differences between the NHS and social services.
Selected to appeal to a wide audience of students and practitioners, these readings provide an in-depth understanding of the context of professional practice in health and social care.
It will be an essential resource for students and practitioners in health studies, nursing, social work and allied professions.
Changing Practice in Health and Social Care is a set book for the Open University course K302 Critical Practice in Health and Social Care.
Synopsis
This is an ambitious book attemping to be relevant to a wide range of professionals in the health and welfare fields and to move from the macro policy context for change to the micro concerns of individual professional client relationships... There is much that will be of use and/or interest to both practitioners and researchers alike' - Social Policy
Synopsis
Designed to lay sound foundations for continuing professional development in a world of rapid change, this Reader draws together key articles exploring the recent challenges facing professionals across the spectrum of health and social care. Topics examined include: accountability to service users, funders and communities; the skills needed for teamwork and collaboration; and ethical dilemmas of working in conditions of resource constraint, and engaging in questions of quality and performance review. The chapters reflect the similarities and differences between the NHS and social services.
This a set book for the Open University course K302 Critical Practice in Health and Social Care.