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Demystifying and Preparing for Advanced Practice

A Guide for Healthcare Professionals

  • 1st Edition - May 22, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Jonathan Thomas, Melanie Rogers, Angela Banks, Anna Jones, Colette Henderson
  • Language: English

With advanced practice set to transform health service delivery, Demystifying and Preparing for Advanced Practice is the first comprehensive resource that covers all the requir… Read more

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Description

With advanced practice set to transform health service delivery, Demystifying and Preparing for Advanced Practice is the first comprehensive resource that covers all the requirements of the advanced practice qualification, across all health professions and in all settings.

Written by expert authors from across the UK, the book explores the four central pillars under which Advanced Practitioners are required to operate: clinical practice, leadership and management, education, and research. It will help the reader understand their role, prepare for and pass their assessments, and go on to practise autonomously.

This book is an indispensable guide for all those undertaking their Master’s qualification, and is ideal for both aspiring and student Advanced Practitioners.

Key features

  • Suitable for all healthcare professionals seeking to attain advanced practice status
  • Covers the core content of the MSc qualification
  • Takes a four-nations approach, with expert contributions from highly experienced academics, clinicians, supervisors and students from across the UK
  • Provides a roadmap for people wishing to pursue an advanced practice career
  • Covers required concepts and educations in detail
  • Includes a dedicated chapter written by and for students
  • Explores the international approach to advanced practice

Readership

Qualified nurses and health professionals across the UK aspiring to become advanced practitioners (ACPs). Trainee advanced practitioners

Table of contents

1. Introduction to Advanced Practice

2. Transformative Practice in the UK for Demystifying and Preparing for Advanced Practice

3. Four Pillars of Advanced Practice—Education: Foundations and Future

4. Four Pillars of Advanced Practice—Clinical

5. Four Pillars of Advanced Practice—Leadership

6. Four Pillars of Advanced Practice: Research

7. Aspiring to Advanced Practice—How to Get Started

8. Introduction to the Importance of Anatomy, Physiology and Pathophysiology

9. Introduction to Critical Writing

10. Professional and Ethical Issues in Advanced Practice

11. Surviving as a Trainee Advanced Practitioner

12. Supervision and Assessment in Advanced Practice

13. Portfolio Development

14. Emotional and Spiritual Well-Being and Resilience for Advanced Practitioners

15. Advanced Practice Beyond the UK: An International Context

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 16, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

JT

Jonathan Thomas

Affiliations and expertise
Programme Director, MSc Advanced Practice, Swansea University, UK

MR

Melanie Rogers

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Advanced Practice, University of Huddersfield, UK

AB

Angela Banks

Affiliations and expertise
Advanced Clinical Practice Course Leader, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

AJ

Anna Jones

Affiliations and expertise
Director for Learning and Teaching, Cardiff University, UK

CH

Colette Henderson

Affiliations and expertise
Programme Lead, Advanced Practice, University of Dundee, UK