advanced nurse practitioner
Advanced nurse practitioners are in charge of promoting and restoring patients` health, provide diagnosis and care in advanced settings, coordinating care within areas of chronic disease management, providing integrated care, and supervising assigned team members. Advanced nurse practitioners are general care nurses who have acquired an expert knowledge base, complex decision making skills and clinical competencies for expanded clinical practice on advanced level.
Also called: emergency nurse practitioner, clinical academic nurse specialist, consultant health visitor, advanced nurse manager, lead practice nurse, clinical nurse, clinical matron, named nurse child protection
- 57
- essential skills
- 36
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
- specialist nurseWhat changes?40 skills in common
- nurse responsible for general careWhat changes?38 skills in common
- nurse assistantWhat changes?20 skills in common
- specialist pharmacist18 skills in common
- advanced physiotherapist17 skills in common
- healthcare assistant17 skills in common
- paramedic in emergency responses17 skills in common
- orthoptist16 skills in common
Essential skills
57- accept own accountability
- advise on healthy lifestyles
- analyse quality of nurse care
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply nursing care in long-term care
- apply organisational techniques
- apply person-centred care
- carry out invasive cardiovascular procedures
- carry out nurse-led discharge
- communicate with nursing staff
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- conduct research in advanced nursing care
- contribute to high level health strategic decisions
- coordinate care
- deal with emergency care situations
- delegate emergency care
- diagnose advanced nursing care
- diagnose nursing care
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- evaluate nursing care
- follow clinical guidelines
- implement fundamentals of nursing
- implement nursing care
- implement scientific decision making in healthcare
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- lead healthcare services changes
- lead research activities in nursing
- listen actively
- make clinical decisions
- manage hospital-acquired infections
- manage information in health care
- manage multiple patients simultaneously
- mentor other health professionals
- nursing principles
- nursing science
- participate in health personnel training
- perform diagnostic testing for allergies
- perform health assessment autonomously
- plan nursing care
- prescribe advanced nursing care
- prescribe medication
- provide anti-cancer medical treatment
- provide clinical advice to team members
- provide comprehensive care for patients with surgical conditions
- provide health education
- provide nursing advice on healthcare
- provide professional care in nursing
- respond to changing situations in health care
- solve problems in healthcare
- specialist nursing care
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use electronic health records in nursing
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- work with nursing staff
Optional skills
36- administer immunotherapy
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- advise patients on infectious diseases when travelling
- assess physical conditions of clients
- assist in kidney transplant
- clinical decision-making at advanced practice
- coach individuals in specialised nursing care
- communicate in specialised nursing care
- conduct preoperative investigations
- contribute to continuity of health care
- contribute to the advancements in specialised nursing care
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- develop plans related to the transfer of care
- evaluation in specialised nursing care
- evidence-based nursing care
- have computer literacy
- implement policy in healthcare practices
- innovation in nursing
- leadership in nursing
- manage adverse reactions to drugs
- manage communicable disease
- manage personal professional development
- manage trauma through surgical means
- organise homecare for patients
- perform antepartum fetal monitoring
- perform bronchoscopy
- perform venous cannulation
- provide nursing care in community settings
- screen patients for disease risk factors
- spine surgery
- supervise medical residents
- supervise nursing staff
- support nurses
- teach nursing principles
- treat medical conditions of elderly people
- use foreign languages in patient care
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