This book examines the nature of professional relationships in healthcare practice and emphasises the importance of these relationships to the quality of healthcare experiences, practices and outcomes.
The quality, resourcing and accessibility of healthcare is a key issue facing societies in the 21st century. Despite the system delivery focus of these factors it is critical to remember that healthcare is a human service and as such, people need to be placed at the centre of healthcare systems and processes. To do this we need to improve the way that people are valued and involved in healthcare practices. Professional relationships lie at the heart of such practices.
This book illuminates and challenges professional healthcare relationships. The authors examine the nature, context and purpose of healthcare relationships, explore models through which these relationships are enacted, developed and critiqued, and provide narratives of health practice relationships in action. These narratives reveal how health practice relationships are experienced and created in real-world situations. The various chapters generate a range of implications and recommendations for healthcare practice and systems and for the education of health professionals. This is a book for practitioners, educators, clients, members of the community, advocacy and agency groups, regulatory bodies and those with power to shape the future direction of healthcare. There are four sections in the book:
Section 1: Health practice relationships context
Section 2: Understanding professional relationships
Section 3: Health practice relationships narratives
Section 4: Implications for practice, systems and education
Editors and Affiliations
The Education For Practice Institute, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Joy Higgs,
Narelle Patton
The University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health, The Education For Practice Institute, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Anne Croker
The Education For Practice Institute, Charles Sturt University, Mountain Mobile Physiotherapy Service, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
Diane Tasker
Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service, Westmead Hospital, The Education For Practice Institute, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Jill Hummell
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Health Practice Relationships
Editors: Joy Higgs, Anne Croker, Diane Tasker, Jill Hummell, Narelle Patton
