Competencies for Advanced Nursing Practice

Summary:
Competencies for Advanced Nursing Practice is the first and definitive book to deliver guidance for practitioners working to be recognized for their advanced nursing practice.
 
Written by experienced academics and advanced nurse practitioners from a variety of clinical backgrounds, this handbook will support nurses on their journey towards advanced nursing practice and provide detailed information on achieving the competencies within each of the seven domains outlined in the RCN and the NMC's proposed Standards of Proficiency for Advanced Nurse Practitioners: the nurse-patient relationship; respecting culture and diversity; management of patient health/illness status; the education function; professional role; managing and negotiating health care delivery systems; and monitoring and ensuring the quality of health care practice.
 
The text concludes with a section on how practice can be recorded and used in the portfolioing and accreditation process, how to collect and record evidence and how nurses can be supported and facilitated through this process.

Aimed at the professional nurse working towards an advanced level of practice, the nurse already practising at this level and seeking accreditation and also the student and newly qualified nurse giving early consideration to their future career, this book offers clear and user-friendly guidance for anybody wishing to undertake this standard of nursing practice.

• The first independent guide for the nurse seeking accreditation in advanced practice

• Offers a jargon-free introduction to the seven domains and associated core competencies on which registration will be based

• User-friendly and practical, with plentiful case studies and examples

• Accredited by the RCN

Table of Contents:
What is advanced nursing practice?
The legal and regulatory implications of advanced nursing practice
D1: The nurse-patient relationship
D2: Respecting culture and diversity
D3: Management of patient health/illness status
D4: The education function
D5: Professional role
D6: Managing and negotiating health care delivery systems
D7: Monitoring and ensuring the quality of health care practice
Collecting the evidence

About the Author(s):

Sue Hinchliff RGN RNT BA MSc, Consultant in Advanced Nursing Practice to the Nursing and Midwifery Council; Visiting Professor in Nursing and Nursing Education to London South Bank University; Consultant to Royal College of Nursing Accreditation Unit, UK

Rosemary Rogers BA RGN, Projects Director (Public Sector), Emap Inform, UK

Contributors:
Thomas D Barton PhD, MPhil, Bed, DipN, RNT, RGN Chair of the Association of Advanced Nursing Practice Educators, Council Member of the Welsh Nursing Academy, Senior Lecturer, Coordinator of Advanced Clinical Studies, School of Health Science, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, University of Wales Swansea, UK Audrey M Callum MSc, BSc(Hons), Pg Dip Ed, Np Dip, FETC, RGN Senior Lecturer, Community Nursing and Nurse Practitioner Programmes, Buckinghamshire New University, Faculty of Society and Health, Department of Continuing and Advanced Practice, Buckinghamshire, UK Alison Crumbie RGN, Dip App SC N, BSc, MSN, NP, PGCE, Doctorate NSc Nurse Practitioner and Nurse Partner, Windermere and Bowness Health Centre, Cumbria, UK Heather Griffith MA, BSc (Hons), RGN, RSCN, RNT, Regist

Readership:
All nurses at or working to an advanced level of practice, include existing nurse practitioners; nursing students and newly qualified nurses exploring future career options

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