Nurses’ experiences of transitioning into advanced practice roles

A study exploring the experiences of nurses transitioning into advanced practice investigated how to improve training and mentorship for trainees. This article comes with a handout for a journal club discussion.

Abstract
The NHS is aiming to relieve the shortfall of junior doctors by investing in advanced nurse practitioners and training nurses to perform those tasks that have, traditionally, been performed by doctors. There is little information on nurses’ experiences of transitioning from general to advanced practice, so a qualitative study was undertaken to gauge the feelings and views of six trainee advanced nurse practitioners on an acute medical ward in a busy city hospital. Although job satisfaction was high, participants feared losing their nursing identity and found the transition process stressful. They identified a need for more structured training and mentoring support from nurses already trained as advanced practitioners to ease the transition process.

Citation: Mannix K, Jones C (2020) Nurses’ experiences of transitioning into advanced practice roles. Nursing Times [online]; 116: 3, 35-38.

Authors: Kevin Mannix is MSc advanced practice student; Colin Jones is senior lecturer/researcher in clinical research methods/adult nursing; both at Liverpool John Moores University.
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