Advanced Practitioners

Advanced Practitioner Case Studies 

Advanced practitioners will have developed advanced clinical competence in their specialist area or across a broad range of practice. They will display a high degree of autonomy and complex decision-making skills that are underpinned by a wider foundation of knowledge, skills and expertise from their previous roles to enable safe, effective and person-centred care. Possessing a full master’s degree relevant to advanced clinical practice, they will meet the four pillars of advanced clinical practice (clinical practice, education, leadership and management and research and development), using critical thinking and problem-solving to research and analyse complex situations throughout their practice. 

Drawing on their education and training and clinical experience, and employing the available evidence base, they will have extensive clinical responsibilities and input into the education of interprofessional colleagues and service development. Advanced practitioners will demonstrate leadership capabilities, managing whole episodes of clinical care in their area of practice. Those wishing to progress to consultant practitioner level will need to embark on doctoral-level study to gain the education and training to support their future research activity.

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