Competencies for Advanced Nursing Practice

ISBN-13: 9780340927687 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 320 str.

Sue Hinchliff

Opis

Competencies for Advanced Nursing Practice is the first and definitive book to deliver guidance for practitioners working to be recognized by the NMC for their advanced nursing practice.
Written by experiences 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 outlines in the NMC's Standards of Proficiency for Advanced Nurse Practitioners: assessment and management of patient health/illness status, the nurse-patient relationship, teaching-coaching function, professional role, managing and negotiating health care delivery systems, monitoring and ensuring the quality of health care practice and respecting cultural competence.
The text concludes with a section on how practitioners can collect and record evidence for accreditation of their advanced nursing practice.
Aimed at the professional nurse working towards an advanced level of practice, as well as the nurse already practicing at this level and wishing to seek accreditation and also thte 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.

Recenzje

 "I recommend this text to those aspiring to become advanced nurse or midwife practitioners. Those who have reached this level of practice, and academics delivering programmes in this area, will also find it an immensely valuable resource."

John Albarran, Nursing Standard, 2009

Spis treści

1. What is advanced nursing practice?
2. The legal and regulatory implications of advanced nursing practice
3. D1: The nurse-patient relationship
4. D2: Respecting culture and diversity
5. D3: Management of patient health/illness status
6. D4: The education function
7. D5: Professional role
8. D6: Managing and negotiating health care delivery systems
9. D7: Monitoring and ensuring the quality of health care practice
10. Collecting the evidence

O autorze

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