From nurse assistant to advanced nurse practitioner
20 of the 57 essential skills of a advanced nurse practitioner are already essential for a nurse assistant — about 35% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 20
- skills carry over
- 37
- would be new
- 35%
- of the target job covered
- 57
- essential skills of a advanced nurse practitioner
What a advanced nurse practitioner does
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.
What carries over
20 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- apply nursing care in long-term care
- apply person-centred care
- communicate with nursing staff
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- implement fundamentals of nursing
- implement nursing care
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- nursing principles
- nursing science
- plan nursing care
- provide professional care in nursing
- respond to changing situations in health care
- solve problems in healthcare
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- work with nursing staff
What would be new
37 skillsEssential for a advanced nurse practitioner and not for a nurse assistant. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- advise on healthy lifestyles
- analyse quality of nurse care
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- carry out invasive cardiovascular procedures
- carry out nurse-led discharge
- 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
- evaluate nursing care
- implement scientific decision making in healthcare
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- lead healthcare services changes
- lead research activities in nursing
- make clinical decisions
- manage hospital-acquired infections
- manage information in health care
- manage multiple patients simultaneously
- mentor other health professionals
- participate in health personnel training
- perform diagnostic testing for allergies
- perform health assessment autonomously
- 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
- specialist nursing care
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use electronic health records in nursing
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
Other moves from nurse assistant
2 roles- nurse responsible for general care30 skills in common
- specialist nurse23 skills in common
← nurse assistantadvanced nurse practitioner →The other way round
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How far are you from being a advanced nurse practitioner?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.