What does the future hold for advanced nursing?

This third in a three-part series on advanced nursing explores the future demand for a flexible but regulated nursing career framework. Part 1 explored the historical evolution of advanced nursing, while part 2 discussed the development of a governance framework.

A governance framework for advanced nursing.

This second in a three-part series outlines the introduction of a governance framework for advanced nursing practice. Part 1 explored the history of the evolution of advanced practice, while part 3, to be published next week, will discuss the future of advanced practice and how it may shape the career structure of nursing.

Advanced nursing. Part 1: The development of advanced nursing roles.

This first in a three-part series on advanced nursing practice reviews its historical evolution. Part 2, to be published next week, reviews the introduction of a governance framework, while part 3 explores the future of advanced practice and how it may shape nursing career structures.

Understanding practitioner ethnography.

Thomas David Barton provides an overview of practitioner ethnography, a research approach that provides practitioners with a way of exploring the culture of their workplace. He compares practitioner and traditional ethnography and looks at the pros and cons of the method.

Clinical mentoring of nurse practitioners: the doctors' experience.

The clinical development of nurse practitioners (NPs) has historically been dependent on mentorship from medical practitioners, yet their experience of this mentorship is generally unexplored. NPs have an ambiguous relationship with medicine as they have been dependent on medical mentorship to develop clinical skills, and they substitute into roles traditionally associated with medical practice. Consequently, NPs challenge professional boundaries and present particular concerns to their medical mentors.

Nurse practitioners - or advanced clinical nurses?

This article reviews a specific finding from a research project that examined the experiences of students, teachers and clinicians involved in a nurse practitioner degree programme. The development of advanced clinical nursing roles has presented challenges to the professional structure of nursing, particularly in the area of the unregulated and confusing array of titles adopted by nurses that infer advanced clinical practice. Over a 2-year period, practitioner ethnography was used to examine a sample of 10 student nurse practitioners who were undertaking a clinical degree programme (BSc (Hons) Nurse Practitioner).