From specialist nurse to advanced nurse practitioner
40 of the 57 essential skills of a advanced nurse practitioner are already essential for a specialist nurse — about 70% 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.
- 40
- skills carry over
- 17
- would be new
- 70%
- 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
40 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- 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 person-centred care
- carry out invasive cardiovascular procedures
- carry out nurse-led discharge
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- coordinate care
- deal with emergency care situations
- delegate emergency 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
- listen actively
- manage hospital-acquired infections
- manage information in health care
- manage multiple patients simultaneously
- participate in health personnel training
- perform diagnostic testing for allergies
- plan nursing care
- 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
What would be new
17 skillsEssential for a advanced nurse practitioner and not for a specialist nurse. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- apply organisational techniques
- communicate with nursing staff
- conduct research in advanced nursing care
- contribute to high level health strategic decisions
- diagnose advanced nursing care
- lead healthcare services changes
- lead research activities in nursing
- make clinical decisions
- mentor other health professionals
- nursing principles
- nursing science
- perform health assessment autonomously
- prescribe advanced nursing care
- prescribe medication
- provide anti-cancer medical treatment
- provide clinical advice to team members
- work with nursing staff
Other moves from specialist nurse
2 roles- nurse responsible for general care54 skills in common
- advanced physiotherapist25 skills in common
← specialist nurseadvanced 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.