Books in the Advanced Healthcare Practice series

Work-based learning facilitation, mentoring and coaching are all integral to the healthcare professions.

Emergency care professionals are increasingly expected to work autonomously when caring for patients with minor musculoskeletal injuries and conditions. They have to be able to competently and safely take a patient s history, examine, diagnose and provide management of these conditions.

Brings together in one place the inextricably linked topics of professional development, reflective practice and decision-making Fully updated and revised throughout A range of pedagogical features, including learning objectives, activities, case studies and examples Written by renowned experts in the field.

* One of the first books to address the issue of vulnerability from a nursing and healthcare perspective * Written by a group of experienced professionals, academics and educationalists who have expertise in the exploration of vulnerability from both an educational as well as a research perspective.