Developing Practice Knowledge for Health Professionals

by Barbara Richardson, Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren, Joy Higgs

The current climate of accountability and public scrutiny in the health and social care professions demands a high level of responsibility by health professionals in terms of understanding, updating and credibly using their professional knowledge.To achieve this health professionals need to acknowledge the wide variety of sources from which their knowledge is generated: they need a sound working knowledge of practice epistemology which investigates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750654295
• ISBN13: 9780750654296
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"