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Social Policy for Nurses

Fatchett, Anita

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1. Auflage März 2012
320 Seiten, Hardcover
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ISBN: 978-0-7456-4919-1
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Important changes within the NHS and nursing have taken
place over the last fifteen years. The healthcare
environment has been transformed and the picture of professional
nursing redrawn and sharpened. But how do these changes relate to
practising nurses and student nurses at the beginning of their
professional practice and what effect will they have on the
everyday lives of nurses and their patients?

Social Policy for Nurses aims to answer these essential
questions, providing the ideal introduction to health policy for
nurses at all stages of their careers. Written in an engaging and
accessible style, the book provides a comprehensive discussion of
the current policy imperatives facing nurses across the UK. The
text offers a clear overview of the nature of policy and
policy-making, reminding nurses of their ability, and
responsibility, to become involved. The importance of learning
lessons from the past, both good and bad, is strongly emphasised
and the book has helpful chapter summaries, case studies and
learning activities to help readers engage with the policies
discussed. The themes explored include:

* Working in partnership and empowering the users

* Building a healthier nation

* Professionalism

* Information technology

The future for the profession and for a high-quality, collectively
provided health service is now very much in the hands of all
nurses. This book sets out to inspire the current and
future generation of nurses to reflect fully on the influence that
health policy has on their profession and daily practice, and on
health service provision more generally.

Preface
List of Figures, Boxes and Tables
1. Introduction
2. Policy and Nursing
3. Reforming the National Health Service: 1948 - 2010
4. Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS
5. Working in Partnership and the Policy Agenda
6. Policy and Technology: A Developing Relationship in the NHS
7. Empowering the Patients and the Public
8. Health Policy: Building a Healthier Nation and Reducing Health Inequalities
9. Working with Diversity and the Policy Agenda
10. Supporting People with Long-Term Conditions: A Policy Perspective
11. Policy and Nurse Professionalism Today: A Threat or a Promise?
12. Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future
References
Index
"Anita Fatchett has gained a strong reputation for knowledge and excellence in the teaching of nurses. This clear and well-written book further justifies her reputation and should be the definitive text for today's nurses working in a transformed modern professional environment."
Fabian Hamilton, Labour MP for Leeds North East

"As nursing and the NHS go through turbulent times, this book gives us the social policy context to remind us where we have come from, and assess what the future might hold."
James Buchan, Queen Mary University

"This book is highly contemporary and includes commentary on the latest in a series of dizzying changes to the NHS. Fatchett has the gift of summarising the key points of nearly 60 years of policy and drawing out their significance for nursing and nurses."
Michael Traynor, Middlesex University
Anita Fatchett is senior lecturer in health at Leeds Metropolitan University.

A. Fatchett, Leeds Metropolitan University