Understanding Advanced Practice Nursing

Knowing how to get things done: Nurse consultants as clinical leaders

“…Strong CL enhances interprofessional teamwork (Carney, ; Fealy et al., ), creates a productive work environment and advances clinical practice (Cook, ; Cummings et al., ). CL is consistently described as a key component of the nurse consultant (NC) role internationally (Ellis & Morrison, ; Franks, ; Franks & Howarth, ; Jokiniemi, Pietila, Kylma, & Haatainen, ) and in Australia (Duffield, Gardner, Chang, & Catling‐Paull, ; Fry et al., ; Giles, Mitchell, & Parker, ; Giles, Parker, & Mitchell, ). NCs are expected to provide strong CL within and across healthcare organisations.…”

Enfermagem de Prática Avançada: Pilar “Formação” na Sustentação da Proposta no Brasil

“…No Canadá, na década de 1960, a EPA surge como resposta social às necessidades da população e com forte cunho educacional, preparando dois tipos de profissionais para um trabalho mais ampliado. Primeiro, os Nurse Practitioners (NP) foram formados em resposta à escassez de médicos de cuidados primários em áreas rurais e remotas, sendo que, atualmente, realizam ações específicas às necessidades complexas de atendimento ao paciente e desenvolvem programas e atividades de garantia da qualidade e liderança, com iniciativas para promoção de práticas baseadas em dados científicos, notando-se crescimento numérico significativo apenas no início deste século (12) .…”

Advanced Practice Nursing: “Training” Pillar in Supporting the Proposal in Brazil

“…In Canada, in the 1960s, APN emerged as a social response to the population’s needs and with a strong educational nature, preparing two types of professionals for broader work. First, Nurse Practitioners (NP) were formed in response to the shortage of primary care physicians in rural and remote areas, and currently carry out specific actions to complex patient care needs and develop quality assurance and leadership programs and activities, with initiatives to promote practices based on scientific data, noting significant numerical growth only at the beginning of this century ( 12 ) .…”