Competencies for Advanced Nursing Practice

✍ Scribed by Sue Hinchliff, Rosemary Rogers

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 282
• Series: A Hodder Arnold Publication
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Book title......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
How to use this book......Page 10
Foreword......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 16
1. What is advanced nursing practice?......Page 18
2. The legal and regulatory implications of advanced nursing practice......Page 38
3. Domain 1: The nurse–patient relationship......Page 67
4. Domain 2: Respecting culture and diversity......Page 88
5. Domain 3: Management of patient health/illness status......Page 112
6. Domain 4: The education function......Page 142
7. Domain 5: Professional role......Page 165
8. Domain 6: Managing and negotiating health care delivery systems......Page 188
9. Domain 7: Monitoring and ensuring the quality of health care practice......Page 209
10. Collecting the evidence......Page 237
Appendix 1: Mapping of the NMC-proposed competencies against the knowledge and skills framework......Page 252
Appendix 2: Nurse practitioner radiograph referral guidelines......Page 262
Appendix 3: Portfolio development......Page 266
Appendix 4: Learning contract example......Page 268
Appendix 5: Learning contract guide......Page 270
C......Page 272
D......Page 274
E......Page 275
I......Page 276
L......Page 277
N......Page 278
P......Page 279
R......Page 280
S......Page 281
Y......Page 282