Developing Person-Centred Practice: A Practical Approach to Quality Healthcare

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This textbook provides a practice-focused case study based exploration of how the ideas of person-centeredness can be developed and incorporated in to everyday practice. This how-to guide supports person-centred care and reflects the challenges of implementing and pursuing this practice to make it a reality in healthcare. With clear and accessible guidance through the use of chapter overviews, key points, activities and web-based resources, this is an important book for anyone interested in developing a person-centred approach to care. Students taking nursing, midwifery, and health and social care programmes will find this extremely valuable reading as they learn to develop person-centred practice, as will experienced practitioners seeking to deliver the very best care possible.

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'This book encourages readers to examine their own practice beliefs, and in turn it sign-posts them to strategies that result in a person-centred approach to care. I can recommend this book to all health professionals.' Edward Alan Glasper, Professor of Nursing Studies, University of Southampton, UK

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Dr Jaqui Hewitt-Taylor is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Practice Development at Bournemouth University, UK. She focuses on research and its application to practice, practice development and change management.