• ISBN13: 9781032056005
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Medical, Nursing and Health Sciences
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: January 1, 2024
• Pages: 238
• Original Price: GBP 32.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 422 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Nursing / Fundamentals & Skills and Health Care Delivery

This comprehensive text introduces health and social care theory and practice for students studying at foundation degree level, including those on nursing associate and assistant practitioner pathways.

Keeping themes of professionalism and patient-centred care at its core, this text equips readers to deliver effective, safe and responsive care in a wide range of settings. It anticipates future directions for practice and provides readers with skills they will need throughout their careers. Divided into four parts, it explores the foundations of academic study, becoming and being a professional, working with patients and service users and improving services and improving health.

Clearly presented and reader-friendly, this textbook is an essential companion for all health and social care students.

Dr Lisa Arai is a social and public health scientist with 25 years' research and teaching experience. Her research interests are in the health of children and young people. She is based at Solent University and the University of Northampton in the United Kingdom. Lisa has published widely and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health.