Patricia Brooks Young
Fluid role boundaries: exploring the contribution of the advanced nurse practitioner to multi-professional palliative care
Brooks Young, Patricia; Kennedy, Catriona; Brooks Young, Patrcia; Nicol, Jacqueline; Campbell, Karen; Gray Brunton, Carol
Authors
Catriona Kennedy
Patrcia Brooks Young
Jacqueline Nicol
Dr Karen Campbell K.Campbell@napier.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Dr Carol Gray Brunton C.GrayBrunton@napier.ac.uk
Lecturer
Abstract
Aims and objectives
To evaluate the introduction of Advanced Nurse Practitioners in a specialist, multi-professional palliative care context. The objective is to explore the core domains and competencies of the advanced nurse practitioner role in a multi-professional palliative care context.
Background
New models of health care and service delivery are emerging alongside expanded levels of autonomy, skills and decision-making for nurses and midwives. This has resulted in some confusion in the health service community internationally about the professional role and scope of the advanced nurse practitioner.
Design
A qualitative evaluation study (n = 21).
Methods
Three phases of data collection were conducted over 10 months. Twenty-one participants took part from a specialist palliative care unit in one health board in a UK region spanning ANPs (n = 2) multi-professional staff (n = 14) and patients/carers (n = 5). Data collection methods included individual and focus group interviews with key stakeholders and observation of the advanced nurse practitioners at work and their reflexive diaries.
Results
The findings of this evaluation demonstrate that if the advanced nurse practitioner role can flourish it has the potential to shape ‘new identities’, re-construct the boundaries of nursing roles and emphasise the relationship based elements of excellent nursing work.
Conclusions
The advanced nurse practitioner has the potential to enhance specialist palliative care service delivery through fluid role boundaries. The context in which advanced nurse practitioner roles are developed is important as acceptance of the role is linked to the co-construction of a different nursing identity. Our findings support the need to define, defend and name the work of advanced nursing roles.
Relevance to clinical practice
The advanced nurse practitioner roles were regarded as providing a unique contribution to service delivery and were characterised by fluid role boundaries which crossed the traditional disciplinary boundaries between nursing and medicine.
Citation
Brooks Young, P., Kennedy, C., Brooks Young, P., Nicol, J., Campbell, K., & Gray Brunton, C. (2015). Fluid role boundaries: exploring the contribution of the advanced nurse practitioner to multi-professional palliative care. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 24(21-22), 3296-3305. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.12950
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jun 19, 2015 |
Online Publication Date | Aug 10, 2015 |
Publication Date | 2015-11 |
Deposit Date | Oct 12, 2015 |
Journal | Journal of Clinical Nursing |
Print ISSN | 0962-1067 |
Electronic ISSN | 1365-2702 |
Publisher | Wiley |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 24 |
Issue | 21-22 |
Pages | 3296-3305 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.12950 |
Keywords | General Nursing; General Medicine |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9154 |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jocn.12950 |
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