Publisher's Synopsis
The face of community health care nursing is changing rapidly. New frameworks and action plans set up by the Government and the UKCC are necessitating the development of specialist community health practitioners who possess a range of skills to work across the health care domain, whilst focussing on specific areas of practice. Professor David Sines and the staff of Ulster University are designing and implementing a new curriculum framework which will encompass these new competencies. This text explains the new competencies, whether common core, specialist or advanced, and provides skill–mix reviews of the rationalization of the organization and provision of primary health care teams and their members. It will be an invaluable source of reference for students, current practitioners and curriculum planners.
