Health Practice Relationships

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Health Practice Relationships Context

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Health Practice Relationships

      • Joy Higgs

      Pages 3-8

   3. Professional Practice

      • Joy Higgs, Narelle Patton

      Pages 9-16

   4. Healthcare Systems and Spaces

      • Anne Croker, Dale Sheehan, Rick Iedema

      Pages 17-26

   5. Changing Directions in Healthcare

      • Anne Croker, Jim Croker, Miriam Grotowski

      Pages 27-36

   6. Patient-Centred Context of Health Practice Relationships

      • Franziska Trede, Rick Flowers

      Pages 37-46

3. Understanding Professional Relationships

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47

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   2. Professionalism and Relationships

      • Diane Tasker, Joy Higgs

      Pages 49-56

   3. Negotiating Healthcare Relationships through Communication

      • Jill Hummell, Alison Gates

      Pages 57-64

   4. Working in Teams

      • Julia Coyle, Anne Croker

      Pages 65-74

   5. Collaboration and Collaborating

      • Anne Croker, Franziska Trede, Joy Higgs

      Pages 75-84

   6. People Caring

      • Debbie Horsfall, Joy Higgs

      Pages 85-92

   7. Access, Agency and Abilities

      • Narelle Patton, David Nicholls

      Pages 93-100

   8. Expectations and Responsibilities

      • Wendy Bowles, Narelle Patton

      Pages 101-108

4. Health Practice Relationships Narratives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. Person-Centred Care (In Nursing)

      • Tracy Levett-Jones

      Pages 111-118

   3. Developing Professional Relationships With Clients’ Families

      • Linda Goddard

      Pages 119-126

   4. In their Space

      • Diane Tasker, Peter Jones

      Pages 127-134

   5. Relationships in Clinical Education

      • Narelle Patton, Joy Higgs, Megan Smith

      Pages 135-142

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

• Health practice
• professionalism
• relationships

• 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

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